replied:
> Do you have any LIBPATH entries for the Mozilla apps
> or the IBM web browser. If so, make them go away.
Don't think so, but I'll double check shortly. (I'm
on the Dark Side at the moment, due to some s/w I need
to run there.)
> Well, you rediscovered the same old way to slow
> thing down. :-)
You read those things a few times, and it's easy to
think it probably hasn't changed much since what they
said the last time.
> Repair always requires understanding what
> specifically is broken.
No doubt.
> You do have a recent backup, don't you?
Well, Yes & No. I have been known to back up profiles
from time to time. The last separate backup of this
profile is going to be too old, though. However, I
have been doing whole hard drive clonings on a
semi-regular basis. I was just about to do another,
and happen to have at hand an identical drive that was
cloned 2 months ago. (If I had to go into offsite
storage, I have another one that was cloned 1 month
ago.) It occurs to me that if I had a list of exactly
which files need to be replaced where, I could take
them from the clone drive, put them on a memory stick,
and backlevel their farkled counterparts on the
service drive. I have current separate backup of the
bookmark files. Whatever extensions were installed
into the profile will not have changed from 1 or even
2 months ago. (Except for the older Image Zoom I
removed.) The History file I could care less about.
If anything else is critical, I'm not aware of it just
now.
> I don't do AWOLs. Sorta like Windows. How are the
> links not clickable?
> Do they push the mouse pointer off to the side or do
> they just not result
> in the page loading.
If you try to click on them, nothing happens. Just
like *nothing happens* when clicking on the SM Profile
Mgr. program object, or the Edit Menu trying to get to
Preferences. They're all just dead. It's as if parts
of the two programs have gotten intertwined and
strangled each other.
> Do these links work with a fresh test profile work?
> You do have a fresh
> test profile, don't you?
Can't make any new profiles, as I just mentioned to
Ray.
>> OR, are there ways by which I can spin off / clone
>> the profile, so it does not have to be shared as
one
>> physical entity, which could also facillitate
>> straightening out the Moz one
> All of this is possible. I do it all the time as do
> thousands of others,
> maybe more. It requires being willing to invest the
> time to understand
> enough of the internals to know where to look and
> not placing artifical
> limits on your willingness to learn.
All very possible. [This might have made for a good
Demo on how NOT to do it. ;-) But Ray already did a
Demo on co-existing browsers and sharing profiles . .
. I don't recall him installing these things from
scratch for us, though.] Anyways, that list of files
to replace would certainly cut to the chase for now.
Given the chance for a do-over, I can uninstall /
reinstall SM, make sure I start out with a Test
Profile, etc.
>> In the future, I think I would choose to install
>> extensions with the program, rather than the
>> profile.
> Generally, this is a bad idea, unless you back up
> before doing this.
But, you can get to an equally sorry state inside the
profile. I sure did.
Jordan
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