Am I unique? (SM 2.0 Install Default Problem)

[photowriters]

I guess you could put me firmly in the "Not-A-Happy-Camper" Group.

I installed Seamonkey 2.0 only to find that all of my eamils or bookmarks from Seamonkey 1.1.18 had disappeared into the Internet ether. Fortunately, the SM 2.0 installation did not remove the SM 1.1.18 version. I uninstalled SM 2.0 and everything returned to the previous state.

Apparently SM 2.0 found files left over from an ancient, non-function, non-existent, previous installation of Firefox and Thunderbird and mined those files, but it did not prompt for or see current SM 1.1.18 files. This is the first time I have had such an issue with SM. In the past, updates have installed seamlessly.

Has anyone else had this problem?

[Rob_S]

Unfortunately, quite a few seem to have had this problem

There is a help file on manual migration here:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_migration_-_SeaMonkey

Or you could try to uninstall 2.0, and delete its program folder.

Then physically delete the new profile created by 2.0, which (in windows) should be in a folder named xxxxxxxx.default in your username/application data/mozilla folder. (your 1.x profile is in a folder named xxxxxxxx.slt - don't delete that)

Deleting these actual folders is important, so that no evidence remains of any existing 2.0 profile.

Just in case it makes a difference, then set 1.x to be your default browser. (Seems to help it find that profile)

Then re-install 2.0, and it should then recreate a new profile for itself, and offer to migrate your settings.

[Philip Chee]

I guess you could put me firmly in the "Not-A-Happy-Camper" Group.

I installed Seamonkey 2.0 only to find that all of my eamils or bookmarks from Seamonkey 1.1.18 had disappeared into the Internet ether. Fortunately, the SM 2.0 installation did not remove the SM 1.1.18 version. I uninstalled SM 2.0 and everything returned to the previous state.

Apparently SM 2.0 found files left over from an ancient, non-function, non-existent, previous installation of Firefox and Thunderbird and mined those files, but it did not prompt for or see current SM 1.1.18 files. This is the first time I have had such an issue with SM. In the past, updates have installed seamlessly.

Has anyone else had this problem?

In SeaMonkey 1.1 do Tools->Switch Profile.... How many profiles do you see? SeaMonkey 2.0 probably picked the wrong profile (probably called "default") to migrate.

Phil

[U812]

I had a different problem. I installed 2.0. Everything worked great. It imported everything from 1.1.18. After a couple days I uninstalled 1.1.18. from add remove in the control panel. All the SeaMonkey shortcuts went with it. I put one back on the desktop and in quick launch but the one in the systray never comes back. Does this new version still have the stay in memory feature built in?

[BenoitRen]

No, 2.0 doesn't have Quick Launch. If you always had it enabled, I wonder if you were even using 2.0 after the first program launch, as 1.1.18 would already be in memory and used upon opening the program through the short-cut.

The SeaMonkey uninstaller doesn't check if another version is already installed, so it thinks the short-cuts are its own, and removes them.