Re: Seamonkey profile

Christer Jacobsson <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Jul 2018 07:02:34 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.os2
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Dave Yeo wrote:
> Christer Jacobsson wrote:
>> Dave Yeo wrote:
>>> On 09/30/17 11:00 PM, Dave Yeo wrote:
>>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if it is possible. You'd need to set MOZILLA_HOME=R:\ and
>>>> test. It _should_ work but I've seen Firefox have problems downloading
>>>> to the root of drives.
>>>> If I remember, I may test later
>>>
>>> Tested, set MOZILLA_HOME=H:\ and ran Firefox and SeaMonkey.
>>> Under the root, 3 subdirectories, Extensions, Firefox and SeaMonkey.
>>> Extensions is empty, meant for extensions installed for all profiles I
>>> think.
>>> Firefox and SeaMonkey have the usual structure, profiles directory
>>> then profile
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>
>> OK, then She can create the structure as shown above, but what will
>> happen when She upgrades SMpMW118 to SM 2.1?
> 
> Good question. It has been so long since I used the migrator that I 
> can't remember if you have a choice where the old profile lives.
> You're probably going to have to experiment and possibly manually migrate.
> Dave
> 

Tnx for the suggestion above in this post. But would it be simpler just 
crating the r:\mozilla.org, setting  and let the migration do the rest, 
probably the recreating the new profile in a subdir in the original tree?


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