Steve McCrystal wrote:
> Can someone please clear up this pea soup? I'm still on Moz 1.4.2 
> because I can't afford to risk losing my cookies, passwords, and 
> bookmarks AGAIN!
> 
> So, can anyone tell me how to SAFELY upgrade?
> 
> It appears as tho Moz will be replaced with TBird/Firefox in the not 
> to distant future. I don't intend to ever use a browser for email, 
> EXCEPT for the occasional 'mailto' on certain web sites. Do I really 
> need to install another 16 megs of stuff I don't really want in order
>  to do that?
> 
> What do I do to protect my cookies, bookmarks, passwords, etc from 
> being overwritten with each new update? Fortunately I have backups, 
> but keeping them up to date is a pain. Seems to me that it should not
>  be necessary.
> 

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.  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.  I
believe there is a version thay contains an installer but I haven't used
that in a long time so I'm not sure how that works.

Mozilla, Firefox and Tbird all build their own directorys in
MOZPROFILES. I have been using this method for so long I can't remember
exactly how I did it the first time.  I think I just did a fresh install
and then manually moved bookmards etc the first time.

Regards,  Jim


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