SUMMARY: About Nestcape 4.06 on DUx

From: Jean-Francois Vibert <vibert_at_b3e.jussieu.fr>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:23:33 +0200

Amazing. As usual less than 5 min after the question, the right answer
came from
Sean O'Connell

My question:

> A probably simple question for this expert assembly.
>
> Since Netscape 4 (I run currently Netscape 4.06), Netscape is unable to
> save my bookmarks, and to remember what was the las mail read. It says
> Impossible to save the bookmarks file.
>
> I verified protections of my .netscape directory and files. They are OK.
> I tried to manually save a bookmarks.html file it works.
>
> And since one of my collaborator now in Japan has the same problem on a
> sun machine, I think that it is not a local problem, but may be a
> problem of config, or something I missed.
>
> Does someone encountered (and solved) this problem?

His answer:

Hi-

I have only seen this feature occur when someone's preferences
(Netscape 3.x) were pointed at the wrong (nonexistent) directory.
This occurred after they had moved homedirectories to a new machine.

What does netscape think your bookmark file is? Look at
preferences.js to see:

user_pref("browser.bookmark_file",
"/myhomedir/.netscape/bookmarks.html");


Good Luck
S

PS. No problems under 4.05 for me. (I do not use the mail tool).


This was the problem. I edited the preference.js and now it save my
bookmarks.

Thanks a lot.

--------------

Mike Iglesias gave me an other advice, I will follow:

I have not seen the problem you are having with 4.06, but that release
crashes more often on my system than 4.05 did. 4.5_PR2 (4.5 beta 2) is
now available for DU, so you might want to try that.

Thanks also.

Regards

JFV


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