525742 - Update/Install of 2.0 not retaining user info

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 532389

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Robert Ribbeck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090825 SeaMonkey/1.1.18
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090825 SeaMonkey/1.1.18

When installing 2.0 profle info does NOT as stated ask to retain settings
 
... address book, bookmarks, passwords, mail * news settings  are NOT retained from version 1.1.18   its a start from scrach install

using command line -P <profile> -migrate  does'nt do a damn thing

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.download current 2.o

2.install

3.FAILED
Actual Results:  
It's a clean install nothing is retain of your settings

Comment 1

[Arthur Hagen]

Dupe of bug #525038?

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Robert: Is/was SeaMonkey 1.1.18 set as default browser? If not can you give it a try and then try to start migration again?

Comment 3

[Robert Ribbeck]

yes its the default

Comment 4

[Otto Koehn]

Allright, switch from SM1.x to 2.x was not so easy. From 2.0x to 2.1x here without problems.