mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote:
Ray Davison wrote:
Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote:
As Mark suggested,
- uninstall the 32-bit version (this is essential)
- install the 64-bit version
If you need to go back then you will have to uninstall the 64-bit and
reinstall the 32-bit versions.
You can have as many versions of SM available on the HDD as you have
space for. I currently have ten.
You *can* do that, provided you just unpack them from zip distributions
and don't install using the .exe installer.
Since the first Netscape I have used nothing but ZIP distros. And that
includes SM, FF, TB, and all the derivatives.
Anyone with enough interest to get to this list has the ability to copy
and rename the contents of a ZIP. That way, you can put them anywhere
you want, and name them anything you want
If you currently have a 32 version and want to try a 64 version, give
the 64 a copy of the 32 profile, it will do to it whatever is necessary,
give the 64 a run object/shortcut, and you can run one, close it and run
the other one, and see any differences, chose the one to keep. See
"no-mail" below.
"New" is not always better, sometimes it is broken. I don't get rid of
the old until I have decided I prefer the new.
Well, it might work given certain caveats, but switching back and forth
between versions with a single profile is asking for trouble.
No, I am asking for information. And Mozilla products provide the means
to investigate and never have "trouble".
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Most of the advice in the release notes is there for good reason.
When you get the same boilerplate warning on every release, with little
detail, you stop reading. How about an up front list of new "traps"
introduced in that version? I completely missed the "notice" that
bookmarks would be effected.
If you want to ignore the advice offered in the release notes and here
(including by those involved in the development, which I'm not) that's
up to you. But if you run into strange issues you could be on your own
when it comes to fixing them.
"Fixing" a busted profile is nothing more than replacing it with one
that works. A simple batch file makes it trivial. But I have a good
file manager so I haven't bothered to create a recover batch file. But
I do have batch files to back up Profiles and mail - separately.
Running my SM currently opens to a profile menu containing three
choices. One is the profile that I only use with the current working
version. If anything happens to it I can replace it in a few seconds.
And since it points to mail rather than containing it, breaking it does
not effect mail files.
The second I call no-mail. I have a hundred filters and sub-filters,
and sometimes I might be doing something that would cause new mail to be
routed to someplace I don't want it.
The third profile I call test. It is a throwaway, I don't care if it
gets "damaged". I can currently use that one for any of the ten
versions, and they all run well enough to do what I want at that time -
which currently is trying to get anything past 2.49.5 to display ctrl-D
properly. So my current "test" profile has no addons.
Netscape may have given us the most user friendly program ever. I just
hope it stays that way. So, while we have it, be brave, look under the
covers a little.
Ray
PS
One thing we had but lost was the bookmarks pointer that allowed us to
easily store bookmarks in a "safe" neutral location. Yes, I can recover
bookmarks, but protecting them is even better.
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