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Date:	Sat, 12 Apr 2003 03:22:42 PDT
From:	"Info 4 SYNass" <Info@SYNass.NET >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Updating Mozilla, profiles

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Hi Ray and everybody
Your discussion regarding creating or updating the Mozilla profiles is
very interesting for me ...
=2E.. just now, with updating to V 1.4a, I ran into problems once more
and again too ;-((

Never in the years of using Netscape I lost my profile data nor
anything in the User folders !!

So my critics are going to the programmers !!
They do not think efficiently and practicable as not to say far away
from reality !?
Their applications or programs are going bigger and bigger or, better
said, fat and fatter =

but more in the direction of a pretty presentation playground than an
efficient usability

I really cannot understand why not more users do not complain about
these, =

Microsoft-like and very stupid ONE-destination installations AND just
putting exectuables =

and data into ONE and same destination without asking nor giving a
chance to choose =

specific locations in a proper installation process !?!

In my case it would be choosen like following:
E:\OS2\MOZ\140a for the executables and =

H:\OS2\MOZ\140a\ISP\User for the DATA (all user relevant data i.e.
profiles, bookmarks =

and e-mails)

I do not want to be rude and so I cannot give a firm complaint to Mike
Kaply and his Mozilla =

crew for not paying attention of these more user related important
aspects !

May be, and I do hope so, one or better many of you could do this
compalints to the =

Mozilla developer team for reconsidering a much more intelligent and
user-friendly =

installation plus also the RE-installation procedure !!!

I believe, not only me alone, would appreciate this better installation
;-)

Kind regards, =

svobi
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raydav@charter.net on 12.04.2003 06:53:27
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To: scoug-help@scoug.com
cc: =

Subject: SCOUG-Help: Updating Mozilla, profiles

Regarding Mozilla profiles, I assume the concern is email. I have been =

using Mozilla for email exclusively for about a month. It has taken me =

about a year to get it to work. I have NEVER gotten a profile
converted =

from NS 4.61 to work completely. Hence, my advise, don't try. Create
a =

new profile and copy the email files from NS, that works fine, don't
try =

to copy them back.

How to get the directory structure you want:
Go to an HPFS partition X, NOT the boot partition.
Create MOZPROFILES and MOZTEMP, both off the root.
Put mozilla-os2.exe (install program) in MOZTEMP.
Add; "SET MOZILLA_HOME=3DX:\MOZPROFILES" to config.sys.
Boot.
Go to MOZTEMP and run mozilla-os2.exe. It will offer to install into =

X:\MOZILLA. Say yes. During install select a profile name; MYPROFILE.
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A subdirectory MYPROFILE will be created several layers below =

MOZPROFILES. MYPROFILE will have MAIL, NEWS and CACHE subdirectorys.
If Mozilla is running, exit.
Delete X:\MOZILLA, yes I know you just created it.
Move MYPROFILE to wherever you want it, say X:\MOZPROFILE\MYPROFILE.
Leave MAIL, NEWS and CACHE in MYPROFILE or make copies of them
somewhere =

else - on HPFS. Only delete the originals after you get the new =

locations to work.
Go to X:\MOZTEMP and run mozilla-os2.exe. Install will find =

X:\MOZPROFILES\MYPROFILE and use it. You now have your profiles where =

you want them.
Edit prefs.js to point to your new MAIL, NEWS and CACHE locations. =

When =

you get that working delete the originals.

When a new mozilla is released, put it in X:\MOZTEMP, delete
X:\MOZILLA, =

goto X:\MOZTEMP, run mozilla-os2.exe.

If mozilla install does not create a folder and objects on the desktop =

run mozfold.cmd. You can create them yourself but this does a very
nice =

job. I then move the folder off the desktop to connections.

Ray

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