Seamonkey profile on separate drive for multi-use.

[Angelsdtp]

Have always put both Thunderbird and Firefox profiles on separate removable hard drive (F) in a sub-directory PROFILES and were thus able to always have most recent up to date data, etc. Now with a new laptop with Win 8.1 this techniques does not seem to work with SEAMONKEY. Read several articles but nothing seems to resolve this. Did copy entire profile and sub-directories, double checked and found a few missing, then copied them over as well. Still all I get is a relatively blank, new SeaMonkey with absolutely nothing form the original profile. Any ideas, please? Would appreciate direct response copied to xxxxxxxxx@usa.net. Thank you.

[therube]

> C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\profiles.ini

(Back it up.)

Open it with a text editor.
What does it say?

If it does not point to F:\PROFILES\expected_profile_folder, then you have to set it up to do so.
You can to that with Profile Manger, Tools | Switch Profile... -> Manage Profiles, or (with SeaMonkey closed) you can manually edit profiles.ini (correctly) pointing to your wanted location.

KB: profiles.ini

[patrickjdempsey]

The most obvious problem I would think you would run into is that Drive letters are not "fixed". When you plug a removable drive and a camera and a thumb drive into your computer, it will assign a number to that drive based on not only the order that you plug them in, but the specific USB ports you use.

Secondly, SeaMonkey (and Firefox but moreso SeaMonkey) is sensitive to the exact path you use, so copying a profile from one drive to a different drive or even a different folder path *will* result in problems.

Have you read this?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_ ... _SeaMonkey

[therube]

Drive letters are not "fixed"

True.
You can assign a specific drive letter to a specific drive & it may stay that way (basically) indefinitely.
Though typically you'd want something "out of the way", so higher up in the alphabet (rather then D:).
Though for some, D: may end up working just as well.

USBDLM - USB Drive Letter Manager for Windows

[Anonymosity]

The most obvious problem I would think you would run into is that Drive letters are not "fixed". When you plug a removable drive and a camera and a thumb drive into your computer, it will assign a number to that drive based on not only the order that you plug them in, but the specific USB ports you use.

I found, with Windows XP anyway, that plug-in devices were assigned specific drive letters which did not vary. I used 2 different flash sticks with my Windows PC and the letters assigned to them were consistent, even though I plugged them into the same slot.

[patrickjdempsey]

That was not my experience on 2000, XP or Win7. It's possible there's a configuration option for it, but I've been noticing this behavior for a long long time.

[therube]

Disk Management, go in & assign a specific drive letter to a specific device.
I chose 'K' for my Kingston (usb flash) drive.
K is kind of out of the way, not particularly likely, in my case, for it to end up being changed.
And I've done the same, for the same drive, on multiple computers/OS.

(As it happens to be) any time I plug my Kingston drive in, it has always been 'K'.
(Now certainly possible that it could change, though for me, it has not.)

[Anonymosity]

The only configuration I used for USB ports with Windows was Safe Removal (or some name like that). Maybe that assigns specific device letters?

[therube]

Safely remove, has nothing to do with it.

You don't necessarily need to configure anything, its only by doing so, you may have a better chance of a drive retaining its "letter" (though depending on one's situation, it may just work as expected anhow).

[GomJabbar]

Perhaps you have tried this?

With SeaMonkey closed: From the Start Menu, choose the SeaMonkey folder, then Profile Manager within that folder, and create a new profile with the path to the removable drive. After the profile is created, copy the items under your older existing profile (if you want to) to the new profile (I recommend you do not change profile folder names, i.e. qpurf0rt.default).

Your existing profile path should be similar to the following (this is Windows 7, but I believe Windows 8.1 is the same):
C:\Users\YourUserID\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\qpurf0rt.default