how do i move the profile to another folder?
Im on a school network where they have activated a 30mb proquota limit on the network drive. With firefox installed it automatically places the profile on the network drive filling up the profile space rather quickly. every time i remove the folder from C:\Documents and Settings\*username*\Application Data\Mozilla all my rss and passwords dissapear.
is there a way of preventing this from happening or is there a way of having the profile stored on a separate location?
Thanks!
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Run the profile manager, create a new profile and during the process use the "Choose folder" option to specify where you want the profile folder. You can then copy the data to the new profile folder. For details see creating a new Firefox profile on Windows and transferring data to a new profile.
The following warning is taken from mozillaZine about using a custom location for the profile folder.
Whatever folder you select will become the profile folder. If you want to choose a custom location for your new profile, do not select a folder that contains existing data. You must create a new, empty folder (preferably with the same name as the new profile) and then choose that folder in the Create Profile Wizard. Note: If your operating system does not provide a "New Folder" button within the Create Profile Wizard, you will need to manually create the new folder.
If the folder you select for the new profile contains non-Mozilla files (such as the "My Documents" folder on Windows), your profile data will be intermingled with the non-Mozilla data. This can result in the loss of all of the data in that folder, including non-Mozilla files, if you later delete the profile.
Thank you for the quick replies, however thanks to the way the school has configured the computers, i don't have access to the run button in the start menu. There is also NO possibility of changing this configuration.
i tried going through CMD writing Start firefox -p but this only started a new window of firefox.
please let me know if there are alternative ways of solving this problem!
Thank you!
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Kill_application
Check in the Task Manager (XP: Ctrl+Alt+Del, Vista: Shift+Ctrl+ESC, Processes tab) if there are hanging Firefox processes.
If you see any firefox.exe processes then click the End button to end those Firefox processes.
You can only start Firefox in Safe mode or launch the Profile Manager is all Firefox processes are ended.
30MB of space for the Profile folder isn't enough for a Firefox 3+ version unless they're using a "central" SafeBrowsing database, (or they turned that feature off) and limited the size of the browser cache.
Your school is probably using a custom "enterprise" build of Firefox, and I don't think you are going to be able to change the location of your Profile very easily or by yourself (without help from the sys admin).
Here is a MozillaZine support thread about one corporate build, but it is quite old and was locked in 2006 so I don't know if any information posted in this thread will help you.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=138033
This particular posting has links to a number of "Enterprise" version articles:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2019872#p2019872