Steve McCrystal schreef:

>** Reply to note from Jim Byrnes  Sun, 19
Dec 2004 11:52:27 -0600 
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>Thanks to all who replied!  
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>Jim, 
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>>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. 
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>This is part of my problem, altho this is the first reference I
remember to that SET=! I may   
>have just forgotten. 
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>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.  
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Steve, there is a separate entry in the file prefs.js for the bookmarks 
file, for example mine is:

1. user_pref("browser.bookmarks.file", 
"C:\\Internet\\Bladwijzers\\bmark.htm");


So, basically, the file can be at any location you want and have any 
name you want-

2. Repeating myself again (and again....) once more: do follow Mike 
Kaply's good recommendation, and keep the mozilla program tree out of 
the user files tree.

How to achieve?

Just a bit of organisation skills:

A- Put in the config.sys:

> REM Mozzarella
> SET MOZ_BIN=C:\Mozzarella
> SET Mozilla_home=C:\Internet\Gebruikers
> SET MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=C:\Internet\Instekers

(gebruikers = users)
and reboot.

Create the user files directory tree. Can be anything you want, but to 
keep it simple, let's take my example, while assuming "Steve" would be 
your user profile and there isn't yet a profile with that name.

B. Create the directory C:\Internet\users\Steve

C. Copy *all of the files* of the  directory where file prefs.js is in 
(included prefs.js of course) to

    C:\Internet\users\Steve

D. Launch the mozilla profile manager; click on "create profile"; you'll 
be pointed to C:\Internet\users\Mozilla\profiles\Default user;

Click on "choose folder", point to C:\Internet\users, and type as new 
profile name: Steve

E. Click on FINISH; mozilla will tell you "there are already files in 
C:\Internet\users\Steve, accept

Y/N (or something like that); accept, and you will be done and you will 
be freed once and for always from mozilla troubles.

There is something to tell about the *.s and *.w files too, but me 
thinks it's better not to take all at once.

Incidentally, at the files section of this very group there are examples 
about all that put their by your humble servant. :-)



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>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? 
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>>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.  
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>This would be a Godsend, especially if it were in two different
directories off the root! 
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>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.  
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>Thanks again, folks! 
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>Regards, and Seasons Greetings, 
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>Steve 
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Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris



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