This is a reply to "Keeping Profiles separate" above

Paul Bergsagel <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:16:08 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.mac
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Paul Bergsagel wrote:
> I believe that the Mac version of Seamonkey will allow you to specify 
> which hard Drive/folder you want it to store the profile in. It has been 
> a long time since I launched the profile manager. With the Mozilla suite 
> when you launched the profile manager to create a new profile there was 
> an option to specify where you wanted the profile stored. I believe that 
> if you specified a different location for the SeaMonkey profile than the 
> Mozilla profile than each program would use its own profile.
> 
> Take care with this tip since I haven't tested it out. My best guess is 
> that creating a new profile in a different location will cause each 
> program to use its own profile I am not 100% sure. By creating a new 
> profile with SeaMonkey you may confuse Mozilla and it might want to use 
> the new SeaMonkey profile instead of the old Mozilla profile.  This is 
> unlikely. If it does happen it is easy to fix. To fix it go to your home 
> folder and navigate to the Library folder and then to the folder titled 
> Mozilla. In the folder titled Mozilla you will see a folder called 
> Profile. Move the contents of this folder into the folder titled Profile 
> that you created with SeaMonkey and things will work again.
> 
> In either case my tip is safe to try, BUT for safety Make a duplicate 
> copy of the Mozilla folder in the folder Library (this backs up your 
> Mozilla profile) just in case something goes wrong and you lose your 
> profile. It is better to be safe than sorry.