Re: Uninstall followed by install of Mozilla 1.7.2

I'm not sure if this would have entirely worked, but to get your 
bookmarks back you can copy the bookmarks.html file that was in your 
old profile dir and just drop it in your new profile dir (which is 
in ~/Library/Mozila/Profiles/salted.dir) ..

in fact ..if you want to be bold, just make a copy/backup of your 
new profile dir to somewhere, then replace many of the things from 
your old profile dir to inside the new one and see what happens .. 
if it all gets hosed you have your backup w/ all the files you need 
to just replace it ... you can try replacing as many files as you 
like until you get tired of it crashing (or not, i dunno) and find 
out how much of your original prefs you reall could salvage.

I'm not a Mozilla spokesman, but that's what I'd do. I don't know 
how much of the profile internal stuffs has changed beetween 1.6 and 
1.7 but I guess that's one way to find out :-)

Did I mention to make a backup first? .. yeah, be sure to do that.

hth,
-steve

Martin Wessendorf wrote:

> Hello all--
> 
> I want to update Mozilla and not lose my preferences.
> 
> I have had a copy of Mozilla (1.6.something) on my G4 running OS 10.3. I 
> wanted to install 1.7.2 because of security concerns.  The Mozilla site 
> strongly recommended uninstalling the old copy of Mozilla before 
> installing the new.  I followed the directions below (given at 
> http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/guide/get-started.html#installing-on-osX 
> ) for uninstalling:
> 
> -----------------------------
> To uninstall Mozilla,
> 
>    1. Remove the application files in 
> /Users/<yourusername>/Library/Mozilla (but leave the Profiles sub-folder).
>    2.Remove the file Mozilla Registry from 
> /Users/<yourusername>/Library/Preferences
>    3.Remove Mozilla from the installed location. (i.e. /Applications)
> -------------------------------
> 
> In /Users/<yourusername>/Library/Mozilla there was the Preferences 
> subdirectory, which I didn't touch.  There were also two files, 
> "Application Registry" and "pluginreg.dat", which I removed.
> 
> In /Users/<yourusername>/Library/Preferences, there was no file named 
> "Mozilla Registry"--nothing even close.
> 
> I removed the old copy of Mozilla from Applications, installed the new 
> in the same spot, and started it up.  I was told that my preferences 
> would be imported from Netscape (NOT Mozilla).  There appeared to be no 
> option to import my old Mozilla preferences.  And when it finished, I 
> had none of my Mozilla preferences.
> 
> I've been able to recover my mail by directing Mail to look at my old 
> preference file.  However, my bookmarks, etc., appear to be out of reach.
> 
> What SHOULD I have done to allow Mozilla to update itself properly?
> 
> Thanks--
> 
> Martin