NFN Smith wrote:
DoctorBill wrote:
Sorry to have to ask this AGAIN, but I have forgotten how to transfer my
Bookmarks, Passwords, and Mail Files from my failing Windows 7 'system'
to my Windows 10 computer. "The whole Ball of Wax" as Kalifornians say.
I have SeaMonkey working on a DELL Win 10 machine.
I want to copy the appropriate files on the 7 machine to a Thumb Drive
and
deposit them in the 10 Machine's SM profile.
The Win 7 has become unstable - I guess it is time to 'face the music'
and go
over to Win 10 (I hate it!).......
I got to %APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\ via "RUN", but don't
remember just what is what ! Give me a break ! I'm 78 and going down
hill....
You're almost there.
Don't use Run, use the Windows Explorer. In the address bar, enter
%APPDATA%\Mozilla then copy the entire Seamonkey folder (including the
profile.ini file) to your transfer media. You want profile.ini, because
that's where all the pointers are for your profiles (even just one,
because the names of profile folders are deliberately cryptic).
Then, on the new machine, do the same thing in reverse, copying the
Seamonkey folder to %APPDATA%\Mozilla .
I do this one routinely, each time I install an upgraded version of
Seamonkey, i.e., copy my profile data to a temporary folder, then
install the latest update. And if there's problems with the update, I
can copy the data back in from the temporary folder.
I've never had problems with upgrades, but making a backup this way is
prudent, and it is quick. As soon as I'm satisfied that the upgrade has
worked correctly, then I discard the backup (and where I include
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey as a part of my normal daily backups cycle.
Smith
OK - I found the SeaMonkey FOLDER in the Program(x86) directory on my Win 7
compuker and copied it 'intoto' to a Thumb Drive. I cannot find
profile.ini anywhere
on this machine (used "Searcheverything" program) !
Now - do I transfer it to my Win 10 machine and OVERWRITE the SeaMonkey
Folder
on the Win 10 machine ?
Wonder WHY there is no profile.ini file on the Win 7 machine ! ?
DB
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