Steve McCrystal wrote:
> ** Reply to note from Jim Byrnes  Sun, 19 Dec
>  2004 11:52:27 -0600
> 
> Thanks to all who replied!
> 
> Jim,
> 
> 
>> I have a MOZPROFILES directory and I use SET 
>> MOZILLA_HOME=H:\MOZPROFILES in my config.sys. this keeps all of the
>>  things you mention above seperate from the directory that has the 
>> exe files in it.
> 
> 
> This is part of my problem, altho this is the first reference I 
> remember to that SET=! I may have just forgotten.
> 
> My problem, at least in the past, has been that each time I install a
>  new release, it creates its' own new bookmarks file, containing 
> nothing useful, over my old one. Same goes the rest of the relevent 
> files, thus my need for continued backups of them.

Steve, I'm no expert, but here goes.  It will still create its own but
it will USE the one found in the directory pointed to by the SET
MOZILLA_HOME.

> My question now is, if I start using this EV *now*, what do I put in 
> after the SET= so what I now have will be preserved, and what happens
> to the rest of the old version I now have installed? Do I just delete
> everything except the profile directories?
> 

I would put the SET= in config.sys, create a dir for the profiles
pointed to by the SET=
separate from your Mozilla directory and re-boot. Then backup and delete
your current mozilla directory or maybe just rename it.  Then  unzip the
new version into a root dir and it will create a mozilla dir followed by
some subs.  It's been a long time since I did this from scratch but at
this point you should be abe to start mozilla and it will want to create
a profile for you. Once the profile is created shut down mozilla and
copy your old bookmark file to the new profile plus anything else you
want and restart mozilla and you should be good to go.  The nice thing
about MOZILL_HOME is once you have it working you don't need to worry
about overwriting bookmarks and settings when installing a new version.

>> When I up grade I just delete the directory with the exe in it and 
>> unzip the new version on to the proper partition. All the stuff in 
>> the Mozprofiles is untouched.
> 
> 
> This would be a Godsend, especially if it were in two different 
> directories off the root!

I beleive you can put it anywhere you want.  You definetly do not want
it in the same branch as mozilla.

> Another problem... I've seen advice that one should not share 
> profiles from GCC and LIBC versions. I really don't want to share 
> them, I want to be rid of the older ones, once everything is safely 
> moved to the later versions. Again, I'm currently at the latest 
> Mozilla 1.4.x I have seen. The share thing troubles me because 
> somehow 1.4.x has info that could only have come from the Netscape 
> 4.62 install from years ago. How that happens I have no idea, nor 
> (obviously) how to prevent it.

I'm afraid I can't be much help here.  I do know that when you move to
the gcc version you need some files from Innotek.  Steve's Warpzilla page
is the place to find out about what you need and where to get them.

Regards,  Jim



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