Charles Milton Ling replied On 5/10/2009 7:10 PM
Charles Milton Ling wrote:
Michael Gordon wrote:
Charles Milton Ling replied On 5/7/2009 6:20 PM
Michael Gordon wrote:
JeffM replied On 5/6/2009 9:09 PM
Charles Milton Ling wrote:
[...]after I gave AdBlock Plus another chance[...]
after I shut down the computer and restart it,
everything is just fine until I want to start SM.
All I get is the splash screen. The only solution
(which works every time, but is annoying)
is to kill the process and reinstall SM. Then everything works.
JeffM wrote:
Thought about nuking your default profile?
Charles Milton Ling wrote:
Haven't. Would you recommend that?
Well, when you overwrite all the executables with a reinstall,
all that is left is the profile(s)--which are in another location.
(Do I then lose all my bookmarks etc.?)
I did ASSuME you've got all the bits of your profile(s)
backed up to external media.
...and bookmarks.html is the easiest to restore of any of it.
You don't want to delete your active Profile, you want to create a
new profile that is totally unique from the current one. In Windows
go to Start/All Programs/SeaMonkey and in the drop down menu you
should see an option named Profile Manager. Click on Profile
Manager and create a brand new profile with a unique name. Select
the option to always use the new Profile to open SeaMonkey.
Try it out with the new profile and if all goes well you can copy
your old Bookmarks file from the old profile into the new profile.
As a safety net before copying the old files into the new profile
rename the new file by adding NEW into the filename. In the event
you copy a corrupted file and it again trashes SeaMonkey you can
remove the bad file and use the known good file by renaming back to
its original name.
Michael
Stranger and stranger...
I get the drop-down menu with the Profile Manager option, but
clicking on it does exactly nothing.
Sorry, but it's true!
Charley
Hello Charley,
This is beginning to look like you have a corrupted installation of
SeaMonkey.
Use Windows Control Panel/Add-Remove Programs and remove SeaMonkey and
any other related SeaMonkey installations.
During the uninstall process you should see 2 dialog boxes, in both
boxes select to remove all of SeaMonkey, this will remove all the
files and folders in the Program Files section for SeaMonkey, but will
leave your Profiles untouched.
Download a fresh copy of SeaMonkey from http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
With Windows Explorer navigate to your Program Files folder and
confirm that all files have been removed. If any are remaining delete
them.
Install the fresh copy of SeaMonkey and allow it to use all the
default settings, if you see a selection to install for all users, or
a single user, select Single User.
Once installed you should have access to Profile Manager just after
the splash screen leaves, or from Program Files/SeaMonkey/Profile
Manager, or from the top menu of SeaMonkey select Tools/Switch
Profile/Manage Profiles. You want to create a new unique profile for
testing.
Michael
Thanks, Michael.. I did just that. Nothing has changed at all. SM is
very cooperative unless terminated.
I suppose I can live with that; it's only a minute or so every day.
Charley
And now I can't even set it as my default e-mail application. Oh well,
I suppose SM 2.0 will change all this.
Charley
Most likely not. It is possible that while uninstalling SeaMonkey
something changed the default browser back to Explorer, look in Control
Panel/Internet Options/Programs and see if SeaMonkey is selected. If
not make the change there.
Michael
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