Re: profile corrupted - copying files to new profile didn't help

Bill McCartney <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.prefs
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/10/2003 10:07 AM, Ben Bucksch:
> Michael Sanborn wrote:
> 
> 
>>The prefs.js file in my original default profile does not contain my 
>>settings, nor does the prefs.bak I found there either.
> 
> 
> That's most likely the problem. I guess you restarted Mozilla after 
> noticing the problem and that overwrote the backup file (prefs.bak) as well.
> 
> 
>>I had never looked at the registry.dat file before, but that may be 
>>the problem. There's a lot of repetition there. "C:\Program 
>>Files\QuickTime\Plugins\npqtplugin2.dll" is repeated 66 times over a 
>>1.6 meg file. Is that normal? 
> 
> 
> No, I don't think so.
> 
> 

With Mozilla "Open" delete the "registry.dat file" and then close
Moz.The registry.dat file will be rebuilt.

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Bill McCartney
Union City,  Georgia

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