Timothy E. Archer

Tonight I ran across the following piece written by Isaac Asimov, and felt is was worth sharing:

What is intelligence, anyway? When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me. (It didn’t mean anything. The next day I was still a buck private with KP – kitchen police – as my highest duty.)
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Today I had a slight crisis…I had to reinstall QuickBooks 2006 on a new computer and restore the backup file that QuickBooks creates with the “.qbb” extension.

Everything worked great, and it was literally as simple as popping in the QuickBooks CD, installing the software, launching the program, and then following the steps from the “File->Restore menu”.

However, once I went into the Loan Manager to make a loan payment, I discovered none of the loans that I setup were there. I learned the hard way that the Loan Manager data is not backed up with your QuickBooks backup file. I really did not want to re-key in my loans, figure out what payment number I was on, determine principal and interest components, etc…Needless to say I was a little sad and looked for a way to get my Loan Manager data back.
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I just got a new computer and had to figure out how to bring over all of my Firefox bookmarks and saved passwords over to it from my old computer.

For reference, my old and new computers are both running Windows XP, and my old computer is running Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3.

In order to bring over all of my personal settings to my new computer I performed the following actions:

1. First install Firefox on the new computer.
2. On your old computer, navigate to the directory containing all of your personal settings. We want to copy this directory from your old computer to your new one.
   This folder is located in your Documents and Settings folder for the user that you are logged into your computer as. On my computer this folder is named:

   C:\Documents and Settings\tarcher\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\nkf6289t.default

   So, I grabbed the folder named nkf6289t.default and all files and directories within it, and copied it to a temporary directory on my new computer. Make sure you have FireFox closed on your computer before you start the copy.

3. On my new computer the profile is stored in the directory named:

   C:\Documents and Settings\tarcher\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\o75144ji.default

   This is what Firefox created for me as when I installed it.

   On my new computer, I simply moved the existing directory C:\Documents and Settings\tarcher\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\o75144ji.default out of the Profiles directory, and moved the directory in that I copied from my old computer.

4. Make sure you rename the directory you are copying in the same as what it was named on your new computer. So, everything I copied over went into the folder named C:\Documents and Settings\tarcher\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\o75144ji.default
5. Startup Firefox on your new computer. All of your bookmarks and saved passwords should be back in place and functioning.