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Moving from Vista machine to Xp machinekashga - October 12, 2009 - 12:17am
I've been running FF on a Vista machine, and then I went to an XP machine, and created bookmarks. When I moved back to the Vista machine, none of those bookmarks appear. Is it something to do with reading and writing sqlite files under the different operating systems ? Similar things happened in my Thunderbird. ( categories: )
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Not widespread
First, congrats for dumping Vista for XP. Good man.
Second, it can't be a widespread problem. I went from XP to Vista to Win7 and back to XP, and stayed on the other two for at least two weeks each, and used two installations of Firefox Portable (well, I used one and my wife used the other) and they held up through each move.
Are you starting Firefox Portable from the launcher (FirefoxPortable.exe)? Or from firefox.exe in app\Firefox? The launcher's what works the magic, and the launcher tells Firefox to use the data\profile folder for the profile.
It sounds to me like you used Firefox Portable properly on Vista, but used firefox.exe on XP. That XP machine probably has your Firefox profile with the bookmarks you made, since the launcher wasn't there to tidy everything up. But that's just my best guess. Ditto for T-Bird but I don't use that app.
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Not quite sure of the distinction re launching
Thanks Nathan,
I'm note sure on the differences in the method of launching
I believe I use "F:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe"
F being the USB stick
however I use a shortcut on the desktop with this in the Target
and "F:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable" in the "Start In :" field
I have sucessfuly used this before
That's right
OK, you're doing it right, then. That was the most likely culprit... and the extent of my ability to help here. Good luck then.
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