Leo wrote:

> I have been using Slackware from 8.1 onwards. I am sort of a newbie and so
> I meddle with a lot of things trying things out like installing software
> etc. What happens is I end up reinstalling a lot. I have an extra
> partition on the end of my drive formatted in ext3. I use this to copy
> anything I want to keep. For a while now I have been using MC to copy
> /home/leo/.mozilla to this partition. When I reinstalled Slackware, I
> would copy this back to the new /home/leo and then start Mozilla. Usually
> this worked and I figured I had things all sorted out. Pretty clever eh?
> Not really. Now when I do this I copy .mozilla back then start Mozilla. I
> have it asking me to use a different profile. Maybe that is not the
> correct wording but what I mean is it won't run. Mozilla is not coming up.
> I have a lot of messages stored in "local folders" and I don't want to
> lose them. Anyone have any ideas what I can do? I still have the copy of
> mozilla in my extra partition so I really haven't lost the messages but
> they are not where I need them.
Hi,

How big is the partition you are copying too? If it is large enough, why not
use is as /home? That way your /home will be intact. Along with
the .mozilla directory.

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Gary

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