Re: Creating a new profile without the xxxxxxxx.slt catalog

Christer Jacobsson wrote:
> Ok, let's forget getting rid of that .slt catalog. So She first opens a
> windowed os2 session so She can see it simultaneously with the old
> profile data. Is the command line for managing profile data
> "seamonkey.exe -Profilemanager" or should it be "Seamonkey.exe
> --Profilemanager". Then creating the r:\mozilla.org dir, then jump to
> the windowed os2 setting, first setting mozilla_home=r: and then kick
> off the profile manager. Then look at the old profile data, ticking them
> off in the windowed session to the same values as in the old sick
> profile, only changing these that's location-dependent like the cache
> location. Then save the profile in the windowed os2 session and closing
> it so the new profile will "take effect". She has read that one can
> migrate the personal adress book, mail&news and Settings, but the last
> She can't use because of the old profile's sickness. When the migration
> is done, She thinks that She must copy the .w and .s "by hand" and
> likewise copy the Bookmarks and History files to the new profile.
> Lastly, modify the .cmd file that starts SMPMW118 so it will run with
> the new profile Brekke instead of the old one. She thinks that the first
> thing that's have be done using the new profile is running the Junk mail
> trainer against the mail under the Brekke profile so the junk mail
> checker is up-to-date.

That sounds about right. Currently it is --profilemanager, though it 
seems it was -profilemanager. Run Seamonkey -h and it should leave a 
console window with the help output
Dave