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From: Miller on 9 Apr 2007 15:47 >>>> *Dan C* wrote on 07.04.07 17:49: >>>>> I am attempting to migrate my Firefox usage from one XP >>>>> Pro user to another on the same computer. I have copied >>>>> (there are no hidden files, all are exposed) my user >>>>> profile from the original user to user no 2. Let me ask another question. Did you copy the first profile with kind of explorer, etc. *over* the second profile *at whole*? (I mean the whole profile as it is?) You should know, that in the profiles some paths are stored that FF needs to find the correct data. At first there is the "profiles.ini", directly under blabla..\Mozilla\Firefox In the "profiles.ini" there's a line like "Path=Profiles/vxyo0dte.FF 2.0" which tells FF where the appropriate profile is located. Next there is the the "prefs.js" *in* the profile which can contain also paths needed by FF. If you simply copy the whole profile from one user-account to another you have at least to modify these paths to point to the correct folders. HTH, BM [I'm no native English-speaker, so just ask if you don't understand what i mean. ;-) ]
From: Dan C on 9 Apr 2007 22:33 Miller wrote: >>>>> *Dan C* wrote on 07.04.07 17:49: >>>>>> I am attempting to migrate my Firefox usage from one XP >>>>>> Pro user to another on the same computer. I have copied >>>>>> (there are no hidden files, all are exposed) my user >>>>>> profile from the original user to user no 2. > > Let me ask another question. Did you copy the first profile with > kind of explorer, etc. *over* the second profile *at whole*? > (I mean the whole profile as it is?) > > You should know, that in the profiles some paths are stored > that FF needs to find the correct data. > At first there is the "profiles.ini", directly under blabla..\Mozilla\Firefox > In the "profiles.ini" there's a line like "Path=Profiles/vxyo0dte.FF 2.0" > which tells FF where the appropriate profile is located. > Next there is the the "prefs.js" *in* the profile which can contain also > paths needed by FF. > If you simply copy the whole profile from one user-account to > another you have at least to modify these paths to point to the > correct folders. > > HTH, BM > [I'm no native English-speaker, so just ask if you don't understand > what i mean. ;-) ] You are communicating well, I would not have known you were non native English communicator. Miller, I did not copy over the other profile, I renamed old one under that user and copied into proper directory. I did find and edit the profiles.ini and gave it a try and FF loaded up properly. I did not change prefs.js because I am unable to properly open it. And do I really need to change since, it seems, my opening of FF worked. Now there may be some other problem show up that entails a change. Dan
From: Miller on 10 Apr 2007 00:38 *Dan C* wrote on 10.04.07 04:33: > Miller wrote: >> You should know, that in the profiles some paths are stored >> that FF needs to find the correct data. >> At first there is the "profiles.ini", directly under blabla..\Mozilla\Firefox >> In the "profiles.ini" there's a line like "Path=Profiles/vxyo0dte.FF 2.0" >> which tells FF where the appropriate profile is located. >> Next there is the the "prefs.js" *in* the profile which can contain also >> paths needed by FF. >> If you simply copy the whole profile from one user-account to >> another you have at least to modify these paths to point to the >> correct folders. > I did find and edit the profiles.ini and gave it a try and > FF loaded up properly. Sounds good so far. > I did not change prefs.js because I am unable to properly > open it. The "prefs.js" is only a simple textfile which you can open and edit with a plain-text-editor like notepad. > And do I really need to change since, it seems, > my opening of FF worked. Now there may be some other > problem show up that entails a change. As long as you don't get any further errors you can of course leave "prefs.js" as it is. Depending on the data stored in the "prefs.js" you could get some other errors in the future, because FF _could_ use or store data in the wrong profile. So maybe it's worth to take a look to the "prefs.js" in your new profile just to make sure, that there are no paths pointing to the old profile. cu, Miller
From: Peter.Potamus.the.Purple.Hippo on 10 Apr 2007 00:58
On Apr 9, 9:38 pm, Miller <wurstwas...(a)gmx.org> wrote: > *Dan C* wrote on 10.04.07 04:33: > > I did not change prefs.js because I am unable to properly > > open it. > > The "prefs.js" is only a simple textfile which you can open and edit > with a plain-text-editor like notepad. > The prefs.js file is a javascript file. Double clicking on it won't open it. You have to open it from within another program, such as notepad or wordpad or whatever. |