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 |
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| 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.