Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:
Henrik37 wrote:
Henrik37 wrote:
I currently am running 32 bit SM 2.49.5 on a 64 bit PC under X86 Win7
Home. I am about to convert to X64 Win10-Pro and already have a new
X64 Win10-Pro COA and key. All of the existing 32 bit files are
saved to an external hard drive.
I want to convert to 64 bit SM 2.52.2 which I understand can download
from the SM site as I understand it. How can I integrate my existing
saved 32 bit e-mail message and bookmark files to this new setup? I
know nothing about any file structure differences between 32 bit and
64 bit installations. I do know how to use both the DOS and Windows
copy and paste commands having been around since the MS-DOS days.
Simply copy the saved message and bookmark files to their respective
positions in a newly installed 64 bit SM 2.52.2 installation prior to
going live with the new 64 bit SM installation? Could it be that easy?
What are the exact file names and in which folders (AKA:
directories/sub-directories) in which these files are located?
What about my profile? Can I just copy the saved 32 bit SM 2.49.5
profile and paste that into a new 64 bit SM 2.52 installation?
Advice, guidance, and instructions, even if complicated, will be most
appreciated.
My apologies; I should have included the existing 32 bit SM 2.49.5
address book files along with the saved e-mails and bookmarks that I
want to transfer/integrate to my new x64 Win10-pro/64 bit SM 2.52.2
set-up.
Zip up the entire AppData\Roaming\mozilla folder on your Windows 7 pc
when SeaMonkey is closed. Unpack it on you new Windows 10 PC and just
install the 2.53.2 Windows x64 version. Should pick up your old profile
and upgrade it. Make sure you remove a master password if one exists
before you zip it up.
Windows 10 makes it harder to set an external Browser as default but it
is still possible in the new Stettings dialogs.
FRG
FRG - First, this all sounds too easy. Second, I recognize that you
know vastly more about SeaMonkey 2.52.2 mail than my 82 year old brain
will ever comprehend. I do, however, have some questions:
1) Must I Zip and UnZip the Mozilla folder to move it? As my Win7-Home
files are backed up to an external hard drive, why couldn't I just use
the Windows 'Copy' command and move them from the external hard drive
that way?
2) Do I understand you correctly that you are telling me to move the
Win7 files to their Win10 destination and then install X64 SM 2.52.2?
3) It has always been my custom to install SM to a 'd\' partition on the
same physical hard drive as the Windows OS because an OS failure is
easier to deal with if there are no (often large) e-mail files to worry
about preserving in the same partition as the OS. A friend recently
told me that SM 2.52.2 no longer permits such a SM installation; i.e. in
a different hard drive partition than the 'c:\' used by the Windows OS.
Is that information correct and, if so, is there any way to install X64
SM 2.52 in a partition of one's choice?
Thank you for your most helpful explanation and guidance.
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