On 10/27/2009 3:24 PM, Hartmut Figge wrote: > David E. Ross: > >> First, I cleared out SeaMonkey 1.1.18. I deleted its entire >> installation folder and all profile folders. > > Why? Then SM2 has nothing to migrate. > >> (I saved the profiles on a different hard drive; > > A good step. > >> Then, I installed SeaMonkey 2.0 on Windows XP SP2. I did a custom >> install, deselecting Chatzilla. I installed in >> [C:\SeaMonkey\seamonkey.exe]. > > I never used the installer. > >> At the end, I got a window asking if I wanted to launch SeaMonkey. I >> responded positively. I then got an error popup with the message: >> "SeaMonkey is already running, but is not reponding. To open a new >> window, you must first close the existing SeaMonkey process, or restart >> your system." I checked the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Delete) -- >> both Applications and Processes tabs -- and cannot find SeaMonkey >> running. When I did a warm reboot, I got the same error popup. > > Look in your profile if there is a file with the name parent.lock. If > so, delete it. > > Hartmut
Regarding my four old profiles, they were not in a standard location. I had Profile Manager (SM 1.1.x) put them in [C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla]. Can SM 2 migrate one of them from there on installation? Is this the cause of my problem? -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
