DoctorBill wrote:
Right now, as I write this, I am on a Windows 7 system using 2.49.1
SeaMonkey.
I bought a Dell "All-In-One" compuker with the latest Windows 10 running
(Uggg!) and loaded
SeaMonkey 2.49.5.
Can I COPY my E-Mail, Bookmarks, Passwords, etc from this machine to the
newer one ?
It has been YEARS since I did such a thing and I don't remember how.....
Short answer: yes.
Longer answer: this is pretty easy with Mozilla applications. What to do:
1) Install Seamonkey on the new machine, but don't start it up (i.e.,
don't run the setup wizard).
2) Get a copy of the contents of %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey (the entire
folder) on the old machine. If you haven't set up networked sharing, the
fastest way to do this is to copy to a USB device (thumb drive or
external hard drive).
3) On the new machine, copy all your data %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey,
and you're all set to go, where Seamonkey on the new machine is working
with an exact and complete copy of what was on your old machine.
I will note that for this, I'm using Windows environment variables (as
Seamonkey does itself) to find your profile data, rather than trying to
explain how to find the data in C:\Users\.... If you enter the location
in the address bar in the Windows Explorer, that will get you to the
correct location, even though your AppData folder is normally hidden.
The environment variable gets you to the correct location on the first
try, and ignores the fact that the folder is hidden.
As an aside, this is useful to know for the purposes of making backups
of profiles. Because AppData is hidden, Microsoft makes it difficult to
back up data stored there, and there are a few apps where you actually
want to back up your data. All Mozilla apps (not just SeaMonkey, but
Firefox and Thunderbird, as well) store data in AppData, and if you know
how to access via environment variable, then it's relatively easy to
make sure that data gets included when you're doing backups.
One minor complication -- I moved a Seamonkey profile to a new computer
several months ago, using this methodology. The one problem that I had
was with newsgroups, in handling read/unread. For most of my
newsgroups, I was able to get things to behave, but in a few cases, I
had to resort to doing a Repair Folder (and re-downloading the entire
history of headers). And in one or two newsgroups, that didn't work,
and I had to unsubscribe and resubscribe the newsgroups. Not really a
significant problem, but annoying.
Smith
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