I had to reformat my hard drive recently. I saved all my prefs and suchlike to CDs but when I go online it doesn't read my Netscape prefs, so i've lost my email and bookmarks. can someone help me??

Divals

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"And then god did come up from heaven and said, 'Do my bidding, you pitiful, powerless, weak humans! Go and spread my li... er, I mean truth, throughout the world!' And then he did laugh most evilly, and the planet of Mososuis did split in half, with one half becoming the moon, and the other half, bearing all its inhabitants, did fly into the sun. Yes." -from the Book of Relics, planet Rikka
Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
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Although yes, this isn't EV Dev material

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Originally posted by Divals the Conqueror:
**I had to reformat my hard drive recently. I saved all my prefs and suchlike to CDs but when I go online it doesn't read my Netscape prefs, so i've lost my email and bookmarks. can someone help me??

Divals
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Yes, I learned this by having my dad scream at me for an hour over why he couldn't check his e-mail. Anyways, here's what I did. I installed OS9 from a CD onto my computer, while running the OS from the CD. I backed up my system folder on a different partition...What I did is then I took the old prefs once I installed OS9 (and got yelled at) and, without changing the name at all, I put them in the new system folder. Or transferred most of them at least. Anyways, netscape prefs are a bit trickier, as they come in a folder. You delete whatever folder you may have for netscape in your NEW prefs folder, then you take the old folder and move it into the prefs folder. you shouldn't have to restart the comp, either. It is INCREDIBLY important that you keep the same names for the profiles. each profile has its own folder with the corresponding name, btw.

Good luck, Divals.

-Nat

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Lequis Design
lequis.netfirms.com
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What links are you looking for? If you were more specific I am sure more would help.

_wirehead

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He would, after all, be an ambassador; between the old and the new-between the creatures of carbon and the creatures of metal who must one day supersede them.
-a quote from Arthur C Clarke's short story, "A Meeting With Medusa"

That's what i did - the problem is that Netscape refuses to convert the files from the old to new format.

Divals

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"And then god did come up from heaven and said, 'Do my bidding, you pitiful, powerless, weak humans! Go and spread my li... er, I mean truth, throughout the world!' And then he did laugh most evilly, and the planet of Mososuis did split in half, with one half becoming the moon, and the other half, bearing all its inhabitants, did fly into the sun. Yes." -from the Book of Relics, planet Rikka
Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
(url="http://"mailto:micahg@microserve.net")mailto:micahg@microserve.net(/url)micahg@microserve.net

Hmm, I really should move this to a more appropriate place, but I can't think of one. Carry on...

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