SeaMonkey:Moving Profiles from mozilla.org to Mozilla
Change of Profile Location
The vendor ID of SeaMonkey trunk builds will be changed soon from mozilla.org to Mozilla (see bug 393620). This will affect the location of the profiles. In the future, SeaMonkey will search for the profiles in the following locations:
| Operating System | New location | Old location |
|---|---|---|
| Unix | ~/.mozilla/seamonkey/<ProfileName> | ~/.mozilla.org/seamonkey/<ProfileName> |
| Windows | %APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\<ProfileName>\ | %APPDATA%\mozilla.org\SeaMonkey\Profiles\<ProfileName>\ |
| Mac OS X | ~/Library/Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Profiles/<ProfileName>/ | (profile location will not be affected by the change!) |
| OS/2 | %MOZILLA_HOME%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\<ProfileName>\ | %MOZILLA_HOME%\mozilla.org\SeaMonkey\Profiles\<ProfileName>\ |
Making the change
What to copy
To be prepared for this, you need to copy the profile directory (or directories, for multiple profiles) from the old to the new location, 'before' starting a nightly build that has the change. In addition, you need to copy the file profiles.ini that is located in the same directory as the different profiles.
Which files to edit
In order to use the copied profiles, you need to edit the following files in each of the profiles:
- prefs.js
- user.js (if present)
- extensions.ini
In these files, you need to adapt the paths to reflect the new location. Take care to only change those instances of mozilla.org in those files that are related to a path on the local system!
The file
- secmod.db
also contains the profile path, but it should not be necessary to edit this file. Note: it might be destructive to edit this binary file in a normal editor!
Files to remove
You should also remove the files
- XUL.mfasl
- XPC.mfasl
- panacea.dat
- xpti.dat
- compreg.dat
from each profile directory. These files are caches that contain the profile path but are automatically rebuilt when restarting SeaMonkey, so nothing is lost.
Automating the change
For Unix systems, there is a shell script to automatically copy the profiles from the old to the new location and edit and remove the above files. You need to call it from a terminal using
pmigrate.sh <ProfileName>
So this needs to be done once for each profile.
Further notes
- If something doesn't work after this change, please describe the problem in the newsgroup mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey.
- If you want to try this out before the actual change is available in nightly builds, change the line
Vendor=mozilla.orgin the file application.ini toVendor=Mozilla.
- You should only remove the old profile location, if you are certain that you will never run an old nightly build again.