Re: This is a reply to "Keeping Profiles separate" above

Paul Bergsagel wrote:
> 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.

No real requirement to seperate the profiles on hard drive/folder. 
Simply create a new profile for the program and let it reside in the 
default location.

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