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Originally Posted by Paint Horse
(Post 12857339)
Thanks. I tried that a couple of times. I could never get it to work reliably. I may try again with the new version of Thunderbird. The other problem was as I recall Thunderbird uses a bunch of files, whereas with Outlook all you had to move was a single PST file. It was so much easier.
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Right, but those are setup things like the login information for the email accounts to check. All of the email messages sent and received are in the PST. That is all I backup. I never bother to backup program settings.
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Originally Posted by Paint Horse
(Post 12857339)
Thanks. I tried that a couple of times. I could never get it to work reliably. I may try again with the new version of Thunderbird. The other problem was as I recall Thunderbird uses a bunch of files, whereas with Outlook all you had to move was a single PST file. It was so much easier.
On one machine, I moved them under my Documents dir. It ends up changing a couple of entries in %APPDATA/Roaming/Thunderbird/profiles.ini. There's an IsRealitive field which is set to 0 and a Path field which I have set to the full pathname of my profile directory. For some reason, the one for Firefox is in %APPDATA%/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox. Here's what mine looks like: Code:
[General]You just copy/move everything in the profile directory, the one where prefs.js, etc is, including subdirectories, for each profile you have. If all you want to do is back it up, that's the thing you backup, per profile. -David |
I read the instructions in the link above, as well as what you just wrote. Maybe I will try this and see. Although the Mozbackup approach works just fine. All I do is use it to make a backup of everything and store that on the data drive. When I backup the data drive this Thunderbird backup goes with it as it is on the data drive.
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I think your current strategy is fine.
A backup is all you need, especially if you are using imap servers. It doesn't even need to be done all the time, unless you add/remove mail accounts. imap is the real key. In fact, if you are using one of those instant all-the-time backup things like sugarsync, mozi, etc, you will likely want to exclude the profile dirs from those backups. The files change all the time, and you don't need them to be constantly backed up. It's a little different for firefox, depending on how you use it. You certainly want your bookmarks backed up all the time, but I use an external thing (roboform + goodsync) for password management, and that backs itself up and keeps itself in sync across different systems. -David |
Originally Posted by JClishe
(Post 12852763)
On your Vista machine, click Start and type Windows Easy Transfer. A wizard will walk you through backing up all of your data to your external hard drive. Then if you wanted to do a clean install of Windows 7, you could run Windows Easy Transfer again to copy the data from your external hard drive back into your new Windows 7 profile.
Note that this just backs up your data. You can't really back up programs, they would need to be reinstalled from the original source media if you did a clean build. |
Originally Posted by LIH Prem
(Post 12860762)
I think your current strategy is fine.
A backup is all you need, especially if you are using imap servers. It doesn't even need to be done all the time, unless you add/remove mail accounts. imap is the real key. In fact, if you are using one of those instant all-the-time backup things like sugarsync, mozi, etc, you will likely want to exclude the profile dirs from those backups. The files change all the time, and you don't need them to be constantly backed up. It's a little different for firefox, depending on how you use it. You certainly want your bookmarks backed up all the time, but I use an external thing (roboform + goodsync) for password management, and that backs itself up and keeps itself in sync across different systems. -David |
Originally Posted by supermasterphil
(Post 12860828)
Is Windows Easy Transfer also available for Windows X when you definitely have to do a clean build? I couldn't find it on the microsoft website, one of you guys might know.
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Originally Posted by Gardyloo
(Post 12857499)
The solution (6.5 hours later) was that for some reason W7 was assigning the HP printer to its XPS port; and when you tried to uninstall the printer drivers it was doing so, then re-installing them right back to that phantom port.
All we did was go to the W7 "install new printer" command, find the printer model on the list of available printers, tell W7 it was on USB001, and bingo. So now there are two copies of the same printer on the computer; one that works and one that is printing in some other dimension. |
Originally Posted by u2beez
(Post 12890624)
Turn off XPS , Control panel, Programs, turn windows features on and off, uncheck it reboot GONE
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Originally Posted by underpressure
(Post 12818502)
I just bought a new laptop for my boss, Mrs. UP, Windows 7 came pre-installed. (Emachine, $300.00)
No issues after 72 hours. |
Just upgraded my Lenovo S10 Netbook
I had a 4 day weekend, so I decided to kill some of it by upgrading my S10 to Windows 7 Home Premium. I was somewhat concerned as I didn't have a CD drive, but I was able to create a bootable USB with little problem.
Spent several hours reinstalling all my software and it appears that everything works EXCEPT the SD drive, which is not a huge deal. It seems to run as fast as the XP load, but I still don't know if I will experience the battery degradation issues that have been reported. |
Originally Posted by RogersPark
(Post 12889864)
Assuming you mean Windows XP, type "Windows Easy Tranfer XP" into Google and it will take you to the right spot on the Microsoft web site.
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