Re: Seamonkey profile

Dave Yeo wrote:
> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>> Dave Yeo wrote:
>>> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Her WinX have screwed up the FAT32 driveletter from r: (the same as in
>>>> os2) to O:, but in the new box the FAT32 volume will have the same
>>>> driveletter R: on both sides - will do a clean install of win7 32bit on
>>>> that box on a C: primary partition and WSeB on another C: partition and
>>>> a flavour of DOS on a C: partition.
>>>>
>>>> She thinks that the simplest way to place the new SMPmW profile 
>>>> would be
>>>> to put it in a subdirectory to R:\SEAMONKEY and a new FF profile on
>>>> R:\FIREFOX. But that begs the question, must the SET
>>>> MOZILLA_HOME=y:\mozilla.org\mozilla be changed or can it be as it is
>>>> now?
>>>
>>> Mozilla will try to use the SET MOZILLA_HOME environmental location
>>> first, and then fall back to the program directories (latest OS/2
>>> versions will first fall back to whatever is in SET HOME). I'd
>>> recommend using SET MOZILLA_HOME as having the profile in the program
>>> directory makes updating hard and will also make migrating to SM v2+
>>> hard.
>>>

She looked into the Readme.txt for SMPmW118 and came across an example 
how to divorce the profile data from the current y:\mozilla.org... and 
that was to set the mozilla_home to say
SET MOZILLA_HOME=R:\data

This would result, according to the readme.txt that the profiles would 
be stored in r:\data\mozilla\profiles and under that the profiles 
themselves. One guy gave Her a tip to get rid of that pesky xxxxxxxx.slt 
dir and that was to place a prefs.js containing a couple of lines os 
alphabet soup, then that xxxxxxxx.slt dir wouldn't be created at all, 
making the profile path much cleaner :-)

>>
>> So how should the new settings for SET_MOZILLA_HOME be set
>> if She creates an r:\mozilla.org\mozilla catalog on r:, and under that a
>> catalog named Profiles and under that the new profile names for SMpMw118
>> and Firefox? Remember that the programs itself will live in the
>> y:\mozilla.org\mozilla\ dir. And btw, She kicks off SMPmW118 and
>> Firefox-10.0.12 and Firefox-17.0.11esr and one of the .cmd files She
>> uses to kick off 17.0esr look like this:
> 
> SET MOZILLA_HOME=r:\mozilla.org\mozilla\Profiles You will end up with a 
> directory Mozilla under that with Firefox, SeaMonkey (and Profiles for 
> SM 1.x) directories for their profiles. Might be simpler to have
> SET MOZILLA_HOME=r:\mozilla.org.

What would the differences be if She uses your first example or your 
second suggestion?


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