[olug] Mozilla and Windoz

[Jay Woods]

When I try copying the saved mail and sent mail files to identical 
points in the file structure between Mandrake-Linux 9.0 and 9.1 Mozilla 
doesn't see the copied files and appararently is storing the new stuff 
somewhere entirely.

Irv Cobb wrote:

> Craig Wolf wrote:
>
>> Just a question to ponder....
>> I, myself as well as some customers of mine are running Mozilla for
>> email/Web access and I have started to see issues with something.  How
>> do you backup AND restore that backed-up info to be used again?  Copying
>> off the Mozilla directory in the Application Data directory and then
>> putting that directory in the same place on another Windoz machine does
>> not work.  Or for that matter, restoring from backup after a fatal crash
>> of the system. 
>> Any help greatly appreciated!
>>  
>>
> You need to dig deeper into the Mozilla directory:
>
> c:\windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\xxxxxxxx.slt\
>
> holds the files in question on this Win98 machine. I've been able to 
> copy these directories and files back and forth (even to Linux) 
> successfully. With multiple accounts, you'll just have to keep track 
> of the randonly-named *.slt directories.
>
> Irv
>
> Note: some of the folders in this directory hold stuff that does not 
> migrate happily to Linux and vice versa. But the Mail and News 
> directories, the address book files (*.mab) and the bookmarks move 
> arounf fine.
>
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