Aahhhhh..... No.
This is a problem? Is there a way to change a Windows user name?

thnx

Got a link to here from somewhere, glad I came!

Nice job, thanks.

Not that I know of I really can't wait for Firefox/Thunderbird 1.1 (assuming they will get rid of folder dependencies).

I tried to back up on second computer. it won't work.

here is the screenshot

thanks

http://trioflex.com/firefox.jpg


I got a lot of extensions installed. I don't feel like re-install them again.

Vfx or Gaviaal:

I think the problem you're having is that the chrome.rdf file is pointing to the wrong directory. In most cases on a fresh install of windows a user's profile directory would be found under C:\Documents and Settings\<username>. However, if the user has reinstalled windows over an old installation or has changed his username his profiles directory would not be C:\Documents and Settings\<username>.

...Got that?

....Just make sure that all the paths under your chrome.rdf file (open in notepad) are pointing to the right location.

I can't get it to work. Here's what I did:

1) Downloaded backupfox073.zip
2) Extracted 3 files: 7za.exe, backupfox.exe, and COMDLG32.OCX
3) Closed Firefox
4) Doubleclicked on backupfox.exe.
5) Waited and waited....nothing happened.

I'm using WinXP/Pro...logged in as administrator.

brilliant app, cant recommend it highly enough. Thanks Raptor.

Well I've used this twice in the past few days to backup & restore (x2) my Firefox profile, and it's worked flawlessly on both occasions.

Great little app!

EDIT: BTW, using Firefox version 1.0.2.

Hi Raptor!

This is a great piece of work!

Some wish for future releases:

Maybe you could also include a profile backup function for the Sunbird calendar application? Should work like the others.

Thanks anyway.

BOB

Bonjour,
I have downloaded backup fox073.zip
extracted with winrar 3 files 7za.exe, backupfox.exe and COMDLG32.OCX
doubleclicked on backup

WAIT ......NOTHING

I have XP Pro SP1 , logged administrator.
Que faut il faire Help
Thanks

brilliant app raptor

only slight problem encountered was running it from its zip file, i didnt see you mention that in the first post, perhaps you could add it as a warning.
(or perhaps it was just me )


blaze

Bonjour,
oui j'ai un probleme au lancement de backupfox 07,
je dezipe dans un dossier les 3 fichiers,
puis je clique sur backupfox.exe,
rien ne se passe.
Je suis en XP pro, SP1,tous les droits.
Merci de votre aide

Blaze, I'll add a check on the .exe.

cricri13, please use English. After all, you posted the same thing ina different language. I still can't figure out what the problem is.

Ok Raptor,

Nice program! I've been looking for something like this for a long time! Thanks!

i have the Same pproblem, Raptor as you already know..

I'm getting an error all of a sudden, and I don't know what's wrong. I ran it, clicked next, and I got this error:

Run-time error '5':

Invalid procedure call or argument

Anyone know what's wrong?

An interesting aside to this... I had the exact same issue, even enabled logging only to have the first two lines written, then the exe would terminate without any warning. This was over an RDP session to my work computer.

When I got to work the next day, I ran the exe from the console session and it ran as expected. Although I did run into another small problem....

the username of my home and work computers are different, and I noticed the chrome.rdf file still contained the username on the other computer. Manually editing in the correct username resulted in a fully functional restored profile.

Excellent work raptor!

rtk

And for other windows version ?

^ I'll have to find my old Windows 98 CD (assuming that I still have it!) and see what I can do.

Just went and used it, great little program. It is nice to be able to quickly back-up my install to another drive just in case of disaster...been a long time, but it has happened, the loss of a drive. Making it so easy to do, makes it more likely to be done.

If you want to add more features for the truly lazy (me), how about automated back-ups?

We'll see about that. Right now I'm trying to solve more important issues. And I'm waiting for Firefox 1.1

Raptor, is there a fix for this problem. I have the same thing happening. When I double-click the BackupFox icon, the hourglass spins for a second or two and then nothing happens.

Hello,

I updated some extensions and now my Firefox looks like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/02F...nstallation.jpg

I wanted to backup and restore the profile with your tool, but I got the same result... so I had to restore it in the old fashioned way. Not terrible when you're used to it, but it would be fantastic if there was also an option in your tool to restore only the basic files, not the extensions.

Greetings

PS: I tried also to uninstall the extensions but in vain.

With demise of Mozbackup, will it continue to work with impending 1.0.3?

Has BackupFox been tested by anyone with WinME yet?

Is support for TBird a distinct poss?

It already does.

how about an option to delete previous backups?

can I just say I love you nw_raptor Thank you so much for this amazing app

The problem is just the soft can't find the profile because it's in windows, can you just add a precedent dialog box for have the possibility to find our profile manually ?

does this wrk with 1.03?

Sure does.

than why is it when i click on it nothing happens

Nice program. It doesn't backup everything if you have passwords saved with master password (more security). It doesn't backup key3.db file and probably some others that pertains to encrypted passwords. Lost my passwords (don't worry, able to remember them). signon.txt is left encrypted so no use.

^ Was Firefox open during the backup?

It backed up all files for me. And just for into, I use this to backup nightly builds. So, it should work with 1.1 when it comes out. Great work, it's a great App!

i like this program! yayyy

Nope. Maybe backup file got corrupted?

@nw_raptor

Many thanks to you for creating this fine tool.

Somehow my profile got screwed up and if I tried to access certain menu items FF would just hang. I used your tool to restore my backup and now all is fine.

Thanks again.

**Edit**

Also, confirmed working on 1.04 nightly builds.

nw_raptor:

This applet worked wonderfully when I moved my settings from my laptop (FF v-1.0.3) to my desktop (FF v-1.0 which I upgraded later to v-1.0.2 and still got everything working) . However, when I tried restoring my profile to my machine in the office, things went haywire. It this a user name issue? I use the same user name in both my laptop and desktop at home. However, at the office, my user name is different.

Is there anyway to to get this to work between users/machines that do not necessarily share the same user name?

I am using windows XP Pro with SP1 on all three machines with administrative rights on all of them. My FF is v 1.0.2.

For the people who talked about performing this back/restore manually: would someone please post a link to this manual procedure? Does this work between machines on which I have different user names?


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers Smile

nice tool, that will make me do more backups hehe

I'm getting jealous. There seems to be some of us out here who can't get the BackupFox program to open after installing it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EarthlingDude, yes, its the user name issue. Hopefully Firefox 1.1 will fix that.

Thank you very much nw_raptor for all your time and efforts to make this a better place for the rest of us.

Now, for all of you folks who talked about performing this back/restore manually: would someone please explian to me how to do this or post a link to this manual procedure? Does this work between machines on which I have different user names?

Thanks in advance to all of you people.

Cheers

great app
any comnand line options for this baby? so I can run automatically

Hi Raptor,
Can ou tell me if you plan (and when if possible) to release a version supporting non defaults location profile folders.
I really need that. Thank you in advance
Sid

Tried this one to see if it restores extensions and themes correctly unlike MozBackup.

Didnt worked for me at all, no error messages but no backup files were created at all, Firefox profiles are in default location.



Results were the same with Thuderbird profiles even though one of those profiles is on an absolute location:



Using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

I too do not understand why this works for some people but not for others. I am one who cant get it to load. After double clicking nothing happens.

I have the same problem as CrisCrOss. After a successful extraction, the program fails to open with a double click???

I took a backup of FF at home, freshly installed FF at office computer and tried to restore the home profile. It said successfully done but upon launching FF, it's like this:

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What's wrong?

Thanks