Re: Seamonkey profile

On 07/17/18 10:02 PM, Christer Jacobsson wrote:
> 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?
>
>

It would be worth trying. It's been so long since I used the migrator 
that I can't remember how it works.
At the worst you will have to try again.
Anyways good to hear from you
Dave