DoctorBill wrote:
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 ! ?
Stay out of Program Files and Program Files (x86) . Those are the
Seamonkey binaries, and you don't want to touch those. Your data is
elsewhere.
As noted, what you do is to enter %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey into the
Explorer address bar.
%APPDATA% is a system variable which resolves to the correct location
every time, and using is a productive shorthand. (It also is how Mozilla
apps interact with the computer. Thus, even though Microsoft relocated
the standard location of your AppData folder in Windows in the
transition from XP to Windows 7, it didn't take any adjustments, because
the Mozilla coding isn't looking at the raw path, but working through
the environment variable.
Thus if your Windows user name is "Doctor Bill", then the raw path to
the Seamonkey Profiles folder would be:
C:\Users\Doctor Bill\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Seamonkey\Profiles
I frequently see instructions ambiguated as something like:
C:\Users\[Your ID]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Seamonkey\Profiles
but that's kind of clumsy, because it takes an instruction of "replace
[Your ID] with your Windows user name", and beyond that, not everybody
even knows their Windows user name (especially if it was pre-defined in
Windows setup).
Thus, by directing to %APPDATA% the path name is shorter, and you don't
have to make adjustments to get the user name correct.
And as noted separately, the correct name is profiles.ini, not
profile.ini. Mea culpa.
Smith
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