Mr. Cheese wrote:
xI recently got a new laptop with win 10. I've installed SM but cannot
find the profile Where the doc said it should be -
C:\Users\(name)\roaming\.... nothing after that. What's going on?
It's in your AppData folder, which is normally hidden in the Windows
Explorer.
Rather than figuring out the hard path (which includes your username),
the easiest way of getting to it is via environment variable:
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey.
If you're moving data from one computer to another, the fastest way of
doing it is copying the contents of %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey to
external media, and then copying that data from the external media to
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey on the new machine.
As a relevant aside, this is something to consider for your backups. If
you back up just the Microsoft-defined libraries (such as Documents,
Downloads, Photos, etc.) you won't get any of your Seamonkey data
included in your backups. If you use IMAP for your email, your message
store is on the server, but all your other Seamonkey data, including
prefs and config settings, POP and Local Folders data, bookmarks,
address books, etc. are only stored there. You want to make sure you
get that backed up.
And for what it's worth, if you use either Firefox and/or Thunderbird,
then you want to get backups of %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox and
%APPDATA%\Thunderbird.
Although it seems odd to put data in that location, that's actually part
of Microsoft's design for Windows, where data that is normally accessed
only through an application (and not directly from the Explorer) is in
the hidden AppData folder. That's not just Mozilla stuff, but nearly
any application you have on your computer. Among other things, AppData
is the default location for things like the default user template in
Word, personal dictionaries and Access databases.
If you know that information, you can account for it (especially in your
backups), but if you don't, then you run the risk of that data not
getting backed up.
Smith
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