Re: Seamonkey profile

Dave Yeo wrote:
> Peter Brown wrote:
>> Hi Christer
>>
>> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>>> 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,
>>
>>
>> I would shorten that to SET MOZILLA_HOME=R: as the Mozilla app will then
>> create a directory structure R:\Mozilla\Profiles on first startup.
> 
> No, only Firefox and SeaMonkey use Mozilla.
> I have SET MOZILLA_HOME=Z:\Mozprofiles and under that
> Downloads (created by SM IIRC)
> Moonchild Productions (Where Palemoon put its profile)
> Mozilla
> Thunderbird
> 
> and under Mozilla
> Extensions (unused, I believe it for Firefox and universally installed 
> extensions)
> Firefox
> Profiles (SM 1.x)
> SeaMonkey (SM 2.x)
> 
> Much better to put these under a common subdirectory.
> 

Yes, She wants the flattest possible dir trees for the SM and FF 
profiles, for example:

R:\MOZILLA and under that
PROFILES\SEAMONKEY\CHRISTER (The new profile(S)for SM should go under 
PROFILES\SEAMONKEY\<other profile)>
PROFILES\FIREFOX\CHRISTER (The new profile(s) should go under
PROFILES\FIREFOX\<new profile>.

Is this possible and how should the new SET MOZILLA_HOME be set?


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