upgrading Seamonkey

[Fulvio]

After much kicking and screaming, I did a Custom install of Seamonkey1.1.19. Although I had started modifying the Target line, it wanted to start, anyway, with which profile, I don't know. I, immediately, shutdown the beast, and created a new profile, into which I copied/pasted a bookmarks.html file. And, it seems happy with it.
I think that the address books should be ok. As for email accounts, it may be better that create them, and then copy/paste only the files with no extention. For instance, copying the Inbox, will create a .msf equivalent.
At this point, I hope that I did not mess up 2.8. I kept everything apart, but it was not so easy.
I placed the newly create folder on the Desktop, so I can access it very easily. I will let you know how I will do. It is dinnertime.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 SeaMonkey/1.1.19

[Fulvio]

2.8 seems to have survived unscathed. Since I am working backward, I don't know I will be of much help to you.
But, it is possible to have both versions with no major damage.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Firefox/11.0 SeaMonkey/2.8

[LARRYB]

Thanks for the info. If I could just find out why V2.x thinks that SM is running and I need to shut it down before V2 will start.

As posted in earlier posts I have removed SM V1.x before installing V2.x. but for some reason it thinks V1.x is running.

I have 4 different email address files. I sure hope I can transfer them over without haveing to do it manualy

Larry

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090825 SeaMonkey/1.1.18

[Amrad]

Hello Larry,

I do have a question for you. Are the email, email address, bookmarks the same kind of file for both V1.x and V2.x. ?

The email and the address book files are the same type of files in both SM 1.x and 2.x, that is 'Inbox' etc. and 'Inbox.msf', etc. for emails and 'abook.mab' for your address book. The bookmarks file is 'places.sqlite' in SM 2.x compared to 'bookmarks.html' in SM 1.x.

So, with SeaMonkey closed, you can just copy your email files over to SM 2.x from SM 1.x (you only need to copy the email files with no extension, you can safely delete all the email files with the '.msf' extension as they will be recreated when you run SM. That is, copy 'Inbox' but not 'Inbox.msf' and likewise for all other email files) and replace 'abook.mab' in SM 2.x with the same file from SM 1.x. The 'bookmarks.html' file can also be copied from SM 1.x to SM 2.x but you must delete places.sqlite from SM 2.x as well. When you run SM 2.x, 'places.sqlite' will be recreated and will incorporate the bookmarks from 'bookmarks.html.

You can also copy your passwords and form data over from SM 1.x to SM 2.x. The files you need are 'xxxxxxxx.s', which contains your password data, and 'xxxxxxxx.w', which contains your form data. In addition to those files, you will need to copy the file 'key3.db', which is the 'key database' for passwords.

'xxxxxxxx' is a random eight-digit number and each file has a different number.

I hope that helps,

Regards,

Dave.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Firefox/11.0 SeaMonkey/2.8

[Fulvio]

To conclude this, I did create one account, and whatever was on the server downloaded. In addition, I copied my Sent file from the 2.8 profile folder, and deleted the Sent.msf file which was present in the Mail|account name folder. All the sent mail was there. I had to rename the profile from Default account to SM1.1.19. Only then I was able to start 1.1.19 without having the profile manager opening.
The Target line of the Shortcut is:C:\Seamonkey1.x\seamonkey.exe -p SM1.1.19. As you can see I placed the older version in an entirely different location from the new one. So far, so good. Now, I will uninstall 1.1.19.
Make sure that you rename the shortcut of the older version, since both version have it named SeaMonkey

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