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[neonlady]

I have been having some strange action from my netscape program lately. The most recnt one is that I can't log in from my rofile manager, says that the directory cant be found, choose another profile. The other profiles work fine. I am running Mac OSx2.8 and Netscape 7.1 Last week it was that it lost my bookmarks and email addresses, yet the otherprofiles still had theirs. I am trying to set -up a dependable browser/website so I can trast aol altogether (just am maintaining my email address now) Any help would be appreciated!

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[Alice]

Have you tried looking for the random number_.SLT folder associated with the missing profile? If the "profilename"\_.SLT folder and files for the missing profile still exist, what you can try is, run the Profile Manager and create a "new" profile, in the EXACT same location and with the EXACT SAME PROFILENAME as the one that contains the _.SLT folder assoicated with the missing profile.

From the Netscape 7 release notes:
http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/ns7/relnotes/7.html

Setting Profiles

(Mac OS X) To open the Profile Manager, press the Option key and double-click the Netscape icon.

(Unix and Mac OS X) If Netscape is running, and you run another instance of Netscape to create a new profile, that new profile will disappear from the Profile Manager. Workaround:
Before creating another profile, quit all instances of Netscape before launching the Profile Manager.
Location of Profiles
(snip)
Mac OS X ~\Library\Mozilla

I'm only slightly familiar with Mac OSX (my husband has an Ibook with 10.1.5 / Netscape 7.0) so if you need further help and no one else answers in this forum, try the Mac OS forum (here at SillyDog)

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[neonlady]

Thanks for the feedback. I have tried creating a new profile, but to no avail. It tells me that a profile of the same name exists. I have searched for a folder with .slt and my profile. There is one under my profile name. By the code must be corruptor something, as it will not recognize it.
I will go to the OS section. Thanks again for your response!

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[Alice]

Judging from your error message, iyt sounds like you moved the profile out of the path that Netscape had set for it.... I found this in groups.google:
=============copy/paste===============
> Uh-oh. I found the *.slt folder. I moved it to desktop. I rebooted the
> computer, and when I tried to start Netscape, I got the error message window
> from the Net Profile Manager when I tried to click on the default profile
> option:
> "Netscape cannot use the 'default' profile because the directory containing it
> cannot be found. Please create one. Please choose another profile or create one."
===============end c/p=============

The solution in that case was to move the profile *.SLT folder back to the original location....

LIke I said I'm not too familiar with the Mac so if that doesn;t help, try the Mac OS forum. Be sure to give details on what led up to the problem

Good luck,
Alice

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