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Old March 16th 19, 12:53 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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In message , Java Jive
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On 16/03/2019 03:56, Paul wrote:

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

Can you rename the profile folder to something different from the
randomly-generated string at the same time as moving it (and tweaking
the .ini as shown above), or is that string also referred to in other

I think that's the only place it is referred to.


Correct. My profiles.inis for Pale Moon, Firefox, & Thunderbird all
have absolute paths to directory names of my own choosing on the D:

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Obviously, when setting this up, you have to
Exit the relevant program
(wait for Task Manager to show it's really gone);
Copy the profile to the new drive/directory;
Rename it with the desired name;
Edit profiles.ini appropriately and save the result;
Restart the program.


Thanks for that info and instructions.

Note also that mostly the data structures for Firefox & Pale Moon are
compatible, so if you want to copy your settings and passwords from one
to the other, you can copy the above directory contents as a whole or
the particular file containing particular settings that you want to
copy. I can't comment on whether the same is true of Firefox &
Thunderbird because I've never tried to use the latter as a browser,
but if asked to guess I'd say 'most probably'.


Would there be no end of grief if you tried to put your Thunderbird and
Firefox profiles in the _same_ place, or would they "play nice"
together? Just curious!

Note also the two Thunderbird profiles above, one for mail, one for
news posts - so far this has completely prevented me from
accidentally sending a private mail to a public newsgroup, which is an
error I see occasionally from others. Similarly, I have a separate FF
profile for debugging my own website when I'm working on it.


I presume you can still send a private reply to a newsgroup post,
assuming the poster hasn't munged their address (or has said how to
de-munge it).

More generally, I try and force all installed programs to save their
data on the D: drive. This means I need only back-up the system C:


Oh, definitely. C: for OS and software only!

drive once a month or so, less for a PC that isn't used much - which
I do using Ghost which creates its backups on the data D: drive - but
can still back-up incrementally the data D: drive every night in about
10 mins or less, longer only if there is a new Ghost image or a number
of new GetIPlayer downloads to back up.


You have a commendable frequency! (I image C-and-hidden [with Macrium 5,
booted from its mini-CD] and sync. D [with synctoy], but a lot less
often than you do! [Probably as it's to an external drive in a dock,
which is tedious, but that's no excuse.])
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. -Richard

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