Re: Seamonkey profile

Dave Yeo wrote:
> 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
> 

If She uses your example, i.e. setting SET MOZILLA_HOME=R:\mozilla.org, 
what dir structure will be created when She creates the new profiles for 
SMPMW118 and FF/2? Ok, the mail and newsgroups would end up on the r: 
partition, but that can come in handy if She must request a new pw for a 
site and Copy & Paste to FF/2 doesn't work - have experienced this ot at 
least one site doing this, but some sites have a button named "Remember 
me" in the login procedure, so if She manages to login to the site in 
Win7, then it will carry over to for example FF/2 on the OS/2 side. But 
on another tack: Can GenMac be installed in the WSeB using the genMac 
that lives on the eCs 2.0 installation CD's or even on eCs 1.2(?) before 
it's transferred onto the new box? And btw, have the MMOS2 part been 
updated in the various eCs version or is the MMOS2 the same as in the 
classic WSeB?



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