Re: Keeping profiles separate (Mozilla/SeaMonkey)

Mr. Uh Clem wrote:
> Mr. Uh Clem wrote:
> 
>> I'm ready to take SeaMonkey out for a spin.  I figure I'll just
>> run it parallel with 1.7.11, so no harm if it crashes and burns.
>> I'll try to do as much browsing and news through SeaMonkey while
>> keeping primary e-mail in the Suite.
>>
>> SOOO, my only question is how to keep the two from trying to
>> use the same profile.  If SeaMonkey defaults to a different
>> profile location than the Suite, I'm good to go, right?
>> Otherwise, I guess I need to know how to wind up with Mac OS X
>> (10.4) Dock icons which launch the two suites with the desired
>> profile specified.   I know how to specify target for a Windows
>> shortcut, just don't know the equivalent under OS X.
>>
> 
> Paul Bergsagel wrote [THANKS!]:
>  > 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.
> 
> The questions remain:
> 1) what is the default path to the SeaMonkey profile
>    (Is it the same or different from the Suite?)
> 2) How does one go about creating a Dock or Desktop Icon
>    which will invoke SeaMonkey with a profile specified on
>    the command line?   Those running different versions of
>    MS, FF or TB would have to cope with this same issue.
> 

With Mozilla, you simply invoke the profile Manager and create a new one 
for use with SeaMonkey


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