Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i'm no expert, but i use NS from my os 8.5 mac. unfortunately, i dont have it in front of me right now. i believe it stores its stuff down underneath the system folder. your bookmarks should be in a file called bookmarks.html. you might want to do a find for that file. there may be a couple, since netscape introduced the idea of signing on as multiple users. if you find it, you can import them into your netscape. it's a strange problem that you cannot save your preferences. you might want to add a few bookmarks, and then do a find for bookmarks.html and see where they are being put. doesn't mac 9 support multiple users and preferences also? maybe it's a conflict caused by that. being the paranoid person that i am, i usually try to make a copy of bookmarks.html, to ward off against some clever application software writer doing something magic to "help me." sorry i can't be of more assistance; i like macs but i cannot claim to understand macos the way i do solaris. - -rei > From: Mark Rabiner <mark@markrabiner.com> > > Any body know how to bale me out of loosing my prefs on Netscape > Communicator? > > every time i open it up i have to start from scratch, my Excite page: my > address book is gone or not accessing. > I downloaded a few plug-ins and seemed to have gotten my self into some > real trouble! > I've got to redo my fonts and colors and everything. Then gone the next > time i reopen. > > I upgraded my Mac system yesterday to 9.2.2 and the firmware could that > be it as well? > > this is really the worst computer problem I've had in years and years and > years. > > Tomorrow I'm going to have to pay 30 bucks to call Netscape and see if > they can help me on the phone. > > If they can't I'll switch to Microsoft explorer which is what AT&T seems > to want me to do to stay on the cable thing i just joined last week and > now they're going under. > > Maybe AT&T sabotaged me I'd not put it past em! :) > > Help!!! > > > Mark Rabiner > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.markrabiner.com > > > Mark Rabiner Photography > 1905 NW 23rd Place > Portland OR 97210-2535 > Studio/Home 503-221-0301 > Cellphone 503-515-5565 > mark@markrabiner.com > www.markrabiner.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html