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Sometimes, most notably after a system crash, SeaMonkey can't find your user profile anymore and starts up with completely | Sometimes, most notably after a system crash, SeaMonkey 1.x can't find your user profile anymore and starts up with a completely clean profile — without your bookmarks, without your mail, without your addons, etc. | ||
But fear not, usually your data is still there, you just need to tell SeaMonkey where to look for it! This page will tell you how to do this. | But fear not, usually your data is still there, you just need to tell SeaMonkey where to look for it! This page will tell you how to do this. | ||
==== SeaMonkey 1.x ==== | ==== SeaMonkey 1.x ==== | ||
SeaMonkey 1.x still uses the same profile management files introduced by the Mozilla Suite and Netscape a decade ago. | SeaMonkey 1.x still uses the same profile management files introduced by the Mozilla Suite and Netscape a decade ago. | ||
You only need two bits of data to reconnect your profile: | You only need two bits of data to reconnect your profile: | ||
* Your profile's '''name'''. | * Your profile's '''name'''. | ||
* The '''base path''' to your profiles directory — but only | * The '''base path''' to your profiles directory — but only if you did change it manually when creating the profile! | ||
If you don't know how to locate your current profile, please read [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile this Mozillazine article] first. | |||
Now start SeaMonkey and choose "Tools → Switch Profile…" from the main menu. The "SeaMonkey Profile Manager" will pop open, listing all known profiles. | Now start SeaMonkey and choose "Tools → Switch Profile…" from the main menu. The "SeaMonkey Profile Manager" will pop open, listing all known profiles. | ||
If your profile is listed, just select it in the list and click "Use Profile" | This profile list is stored in a binary file called "registry.dat" (Windows), "appreg" (Unix) or "Application Registry" (Mac OS X); you should have just one instance per user of this file on your machine. | ||
If your profile is listed, just select it in the list and click "Use Profile" — done! | |||
If your profile is not listed, first click "Manage Profiles…", then "Create Profile…" to open the "Create Profile Wizard". Click "Next" to see the actual profile specification page. | If your profile is not listed, first click "Manage Profiles…", then "Create Profile…" to open the "Create Profile Wizard". Click "Next" to see the actual profile specification page. | ||
Enter your old profile's name as the new profile's name. If you changed the base path to your profiles directory manually, use the "Choose Folder…" subdialog to do so again. | |||
Click "Finish" and SeaMonkey will discover automatically that there is already profile data available at the location you specified. Select the profile from the list and click "Use Profile" — done! | |||
SeaMonkey will start up with the last used profile, as long as you don't tell it differently on the commandline or in your shortcut. | |||
====== Example: Windows XP ====== | |||
* Profiles directory: <tt>%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Profiles</tt> | |||
* Registry file: <tt>%APPDATA%\Mozilla\registry.dat</tt> | |||
* Location of prefs.js in profile XXX: <tt>%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Profiles\XXX\randomstring.slt\prefs.js</tt> | |||
====== Example: Linux ====== | |||
* Profiles directory: <tt>~/.mozilla</tt> | |||
* Registry file: <tt>~/.mozilla/appreg</tt> | |||
* Location of prefs.js in profile XXX: <tt>~/.mozilla/XXX/randomstring.slt/prefs.js</tt> | |||
<small>''If you find errors or inaccuracies on this page, please mail [mailto:mnyromyr@tprac.de mnyromyr@tprac.de].''</small> | <small>''If you find errors or inaccuracies on this page, please mail [mailto:mnyromyr@tprac.de mnyromyr@tprac.de].''</small> | ||
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