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How do you keep two Mozilla profiles in sync 20.
Mar.
2003
How to keep two Mozilla profiles in sync
Introduction
I love Mozilla and use it both at home and at work.
So I have my bookmarks, newsgroups, cookie
permissions, address book,...
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How do you keep two Mozilla profiles in sync 20.
Mar.
2003
How to keep two Mozilla profiles in sync
Introduction
I love Mozilla and use it both at home and at work.
So I have my bookmarks, newsgroups, cookie
permissions, address book, etc on two different PCs.
So adding an bookmark at work means that you cant
see it home and reading a newsgroup posting at home means that it is unread at work.
This is very
annoying!
That’s why I decided to get some kind of synchronization going.
I wanted to be able to keep the two Mozilla
profiles, the one at home and the one at work, in sync.
Windows
I use Windows.
So most of this information and the solution only works on Windows.
The same solution could
however be made to work on Linux or Mac.
Roaming profiles
All of this wouldn’t matter if Mozilla supported roaming profiles – see bug 124029.
Currently it doesn t.
So
until Mozilla gets roaming profiles we have to do it in another way.
Roaming profiles is a way to store
profile data on a remote server.
Netscape 4 had roaming profile but its support was not very usable.
For
example information about which news postings you had read wasn’t copied.
Mozilla and profile data
Mozilla stores all profile information such as bookmarks, cookies, certificates in the profile directory.
Basically all of the settings you can change in the preferences are stored inside the profile directory.
This is
very nice.
It makes backing up a easy thing.
Just take a backup of your profile directory, minus the cache
directory and you re home free.
Most of the files are in plain text.
All of this makes the synchronization a
bit easier.
Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express on the other hand stores profile data in weird places inside the
registry and in some files scattered around in different places.
Location of the profile
The Mozilla profile is usually located in the Application Data directory.
On Windows the profile data is per
default located in:
%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\[profile name]\[random
string].
slt\
On a English Windows 2000/XP that s normally:
C:\Documents and Settings\[Windows Login Name]\Application
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\[profile name]\[random string].
slt\
Profile store
The path to all the profiles used by Mozilla is located inside a file called registry.
dat, which can be found in
the Application Data folder under the Mozilla directory.
This is usually:
C:\Documents and Settings\[Windows Login Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\
The registry.
dat file is currently in a binary format so editing it is a bit tricky but it can be done.
Hopefully
bug 174522 will be fixed someday.
For more information about how to find your profile please turn to
http://gemal.
dk/mozilla/files.
html#path
My Mozilla setup
Before we go into the details about how the synchronization works I d like to describe my Mozilla setup:
• All my mail is located on IMAP servers.
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