On 07/31/2009 02:27 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Martin Feitag wrote: >> Bill Davidsen schrieb: >>> Arnie Goetchius wrote: >>>> I was running SM 2.0a3 on WinXP for about an hour but decided to >>>> revert back to 1.17. I uninstalled with "Remove Programs" from XP >>>> Control settings and then re-installed 1.17 with no problem. >>>> >>>> My main reason for uninstalling was the inability of the SM 2.0a3 to >>>> import all 8 of my profiles. It would only import 1. I understand >>>> there are work arounds (discussed in another thread) for this problem. >>>> However, I would really like SM 2.0a3 to give me the option of >>>> clicking on all of the profiles for import instead of just one. >>> Yes, that's kind of a show stopper. Requiring the user to do magic for >>> something which should just WORK is going to keep some users from >>> upgrading, and people who make use of multiple profiles probably are the >>> kind of user you want saying good things about a new version. >> >> First of all Beta1 is the current one, not alpha3 ;-) >> > I didn't mention that to the O.P. since the problem remains... > >> Of course the migration of more profiles would be a luxury but you can >> migrate with only a few steps: >> > The following is useful, but I suspect it's complex enough to confuse some > people. And I haven't migrated a profile after it was renamed, hopefully that > will work. > >> If you wish to migrate more than one profile or set the profile name, >> run SeaMonkey with the following arguments (one after another): >> * Seamonkey -createProfile <ProfileName> >> * Seamonkey -P <ProfileName> -migration >> >> taken from: >> <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_migration_-_SeaMonkey#SeaMonkey_2_profile_migration> >> regards >> > Hopefully the original poster will see that. But I hope that by whenever the > actual release takes place that this won't be needed. I doubt I have more > than > three useful profiles on any one machine, but I do know people who have many. > Particularly Windows people who seem to share logins more than Mac/Linux > folks. > > Thanks for the link.
Further down it shows a "Import Wizard" showing multiple profiles: <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_migration_-_SeaMonkey#Import_Wizard> Does this not work? Or is that the issue, that you can only select one at time? I found that on linux if I use: $ <pathtoseamonkey>./seamonkey -migration it opens the wizard. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
