Re: Seamonkey profile

Christer Jacobsson wrote:
> 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 :-)
>

Yes, that is correct about how SET MOZILLA_HOME works, including SM 2.x 
going under SeaMonkey. Don't know about the prefs.js trick.


>>>
>>> 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?

Shallower directories with the second example, though it is all personal 
preference
Dave