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

Since I have a similar problem, I have two questions:

1) Why must Mozilla be open when you delete the registry.dat file?

2) What do you lose that was contained in registry.dat?

Thanks,

Al Casa

"Bill McCartney" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> 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
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