Re: migrate profile

[email protected] wrote:
> ** Reply to note from [email protected] Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:00:02 +0000
>>   

As Salaam Aleikum!

>>>  Place below statement in config.sys, then profiles are always referenced to the same location by any mozilla app.
>>>
>>> SET MOZILLA_HOME=R:\MOZILLA.ORG\MOZILLA
>>>
>>   
>> The problem with this is that the various Firefoxes version will look at  the wrong place for their profiles, therefore She
>> sets the  MOZILLA_HOME=R:\MOZILA.ORG\MOZILLA in the .cmd that will migrate the  profile and also place it in the
>> .cmd file that will kick off the mailer  itself. Moving the FF profiles to the new r:\mozilla.org\mozilla will be  undertaken
>> at a later time - to get the mailer to function properly with  a new profile must come first IMNO :-)
>>>> But what other statements must be included to migrate the current  profile so it points to the r:\mozilla.org\mozilla?
> 
>  When you have set mozilla home in config.sys, then at a mozilla object you do:
> 
> path: d:\firefox\firefox.exe
> parameter: -P profilename
> 
>  when desktop object is above no need to have it set in each .cmd file.
> 
> For migration info visit:
> 
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_migration_-_SeaMonkey
> 
>

This page seems to deal with migrating the mailer to a higher level than 
   I use today manely the SMPMW118 version, What I want is to migrate 
the current default profile which is sick to a new one called "Brekke" 
which will live on the R: FAT32 partition and that will place the 
various mail & newsgroups folders on this partition. under the dir 
r:\mozilla.org\mozilla (the y: partition is quite cramped, but the R: 
partition have tons of space on it to store the emails (both received 
and sent) plus various newsgroups. So suppose I create a .cmd file which 
begins with the statements

SET MOZILLA_HOME=R:\MOZILLA.ORG\MOZILLA
SET LIBPATHSTRICT=T
SET PLUGINPATH=<the same as in the current .cmd mailer startup file plus 
a XCOPY statement to copy the Sent folders to a safe location. But the 
question remains: How do I invoke the migrationg process from the old 
and sick profile to the new Brekke profile - the mailer should be 
started offline for this, but what parameter can be set to start the 
SMPMW118 in offline mode? Best would be the automagic Migrate path than 
hand-setting toe Profile data "by hand" so the statements that refers to 
the various files listed below:

<$quote>
Cache
Calendar
chatzilla
chrome
copy
Mail
News
78476851.s        What's does the two files beginning with 7847 do?
78476851.w
90820967.s        What does this file do?
abook.mab
bookmarks-1.html
bookmarks.html
bookmarks.html.new
cert8.db          What does this file do?
cookies.txt
dir.txt
dirs.txt
downloads.rdf
history.dat
history.mab
hostperm.1
junklog.html
key3.db           What does this file do?
key3.db.old
localstore.rdf
mailViews.dat
mimeTypes.rdf
panacea.dat
panels.rdf
parent.lock
prefs-1.js
prefs.current
prefs.js
prefs.js.20140129
prefs.js.20160713
prefs.js.20170214
prefs.sj
profile.txt
search.rdf
secfiles.txt
secmod.db         What does this file do?
secmod.db.old
secmod.old
training.dat
URL.tbl
virtualFolders.dat
webappsstore.sqlite

can be migrated automagically by the -Migrate function or must the 
Settings be hand-edited, the various statements regarding these marked 
files be hunted down in the old profile and hand-edited into a user.js 
file in the new profile. And when we are at it, can the catalog 
xxxxxxxx.slt be created with a meaningful text for example "Brekkema.slt 
and where should it be placed in the r:\mozilla.org\mozilla structure?


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