Bill Spikowski wrote:
NFN Smith wrote:
Bill Spikowski wrote:
I'm trying to update my Seamonkey 2.49.5 installations on Win10 and
Win7 computers.
The installations seem to work fine; but then a couple hours later, I
see that SM has regressed to version 2.49.5. This has happened twice
each on two different Win10 computers. I've looked at the various
warnings about this update but can't find any that would explain this
behavior.
What might I be missing???
I'm not aware of specific issues, but I know that when I upgraded to
2.53.1, I uninstalled 2.49.5 first (as well as backing up my profiles
by copying the contents of %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey to another
location).
I'm wondering if there's a possibility of you having problems with 32
and 64 bit versions. If your 2.49.5 is 32 bit and you're running a 64
bit installer for 2.53.3, I'm pretty sure the release notes instruct
you to uninstall the 32 bit version first. In Windows, 32 bit files
are normally put in c:\program files (x86) and 64 bit files are
normally put in c:\program files.
Technically, it is possible to install multiple versions of Seamonkey
side by side (as long as you don't run them simultaneously), and I
have done this on a virtual machine.
My suspicion is that you may have two versions installed, and where
the shortcut you're using for launching Seamonkey points to the
installation of 2.49.5.
If you want to dig further, two things to look at:
1) Right-click on a Seamonkey icon, look at the Properties and go to
the Shortcut tab, and in the Target line, note the name/location of
what binary file is being opened.
2) Use the Explorer to check your Program Files and Program Files
(x86) folders. Check to see which (or both) have Seamonkey folders.
Check the properties (Details tab) of any Seamonkey.exe files to
verify version numbers.
If you're seeing any indication of Seamonkey installed in multiple
locations, I suggest making sure you uninstall all copies of Seamonkey
(and Windows will probably also report two versions active), and then
install a new copy.
Smith
Yes -- I think this turned out to be my problem!
I had 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Seamonkey installed on both
machines; one with both versions of 2.53.3, and one with 2.53.3 and 2.49.5.
I uninstalled the 32-bit versions and adjusted the shortcuts to point to
the 64-bit versions, and both machines worked properly right away --
didn't even require use of my backed-up profiles.
I probably was running both versions at once. I normally keep the mail
window open all day, and typically open and close multiple browser
windows as I need them. The conflict probably accounted for yesterday's
strange behavior of my POP3 email servers as well!
As always, I greatly appreciate those in this group who go to the
trouble of helping out we the bewildered!
Be warned that "running both versions at once" is a very dangerous - ok,
suicidal - thing to do with those two versions.
When you move from a 2.49.x (or older) version to a 2.53.x version, the
profile undergoes some migration reformatting which renders part of it
useless for 2.49.x levels. That is the reason for THOSE BIG WARNINGS IN
RED IN THE RELEASE NOTES which you should have seen.
If you then do a fallback to a 2.49.x level then it will mark some of
the files as unuseable and rename them, replacing them with valid files
with no content. I'm rather assuming that going forwards again will
cause those no-content files to be migrated in turn, you will have lost
your original data.
The Release Notes are slightly misleading here in that there are imho no
problems switching between 2.53.x (or 2.49.x) releases, just when you
switch between the two families.
--
spammo ergo sum, viruses courtesy of https://www.nsa.gov/malware/
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