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Date:	Fri, 11 Apr 2003 20:00:05 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Updating Mozilla

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J. R. Fox wrote:
>
> How can you _force_ Mozilla's Profile Mgr. to convert
> existing, but previously unconverted profiles ?

Hiya Foxey,

I don't have the slightest idea. The following suggestions might help:

Suggestion 1: Why don't you just reinstall Mozilla and convert the
unconverted profiles? If you temporarily move your existing and
currently working Mozilla profiles to a safe place and then reinstall,
Mozilla won't see any profiles and I assume ("never assume") will
then allow you to convert your old ones. Once you've done the
conversion, you can move the saved profiles back to where they were and
Mozilla might now see them all. I don't know if this will work; there
might be some kind of master Profiles registry in which case this method
will fail.

Suggestion 2: If the Mozilla installer lets you browse to other
profiles you want converted, you can do a brand new install to a brand
new directory name and then convert all the profiles from everywhere
else.

Suggestion 3: If nothing else works, a manual conversion shouldn't be
difficult. I don't know what files are included in the installer's
"convert" but I don't see why you can't just create a new profile and
then move the old cookies.txt file and old email messages to the new
profile. There's also a prefs.js file which shouldn't need much
conversion -- probably just things like specifying your email address
and server name. You can do a comparison between the old and new
prefs.js files with guiffy or PMDiff or just print and eyeball them, and
manually decide what to modify (if you never changed much in the old
prefs.js then you won't need to modify much in the new one). I don't
know where the password manager stores its info so you may have to enter
your bank/newspaper/ebay id's and passwords the first time you visit the
sites.

- Peter

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