QA:Creating a New Profile and Salvaging Files from Your Old Profile

From time to time you might experience a problem caused by a bad setting or corrupt file in your Camino profile. If you run Camino using Troubleshoot Camino and the problem disappears, the problem is likely caused by something in your profile. You can either create an entirely new profile and start over, abandoning some personal data, or you can try to narrow down the problematic files in your current profile and salvage the other files.

Creating a New Profile for Continuing Use

To create a new profile to use on a permanent basis, follow these steps:

1. If Camino is running, quit Camino.
2. From your home folder, open the Library folder and then the Application Support folder.
3. You should see a folder named Camino. Rename this folder or move it to another location, such as the Desktop.
4. Launch Camino.

Camino will now create a new profile folder with all of the default settings and will use this profile in the future.

If you wish to try to salvage some of the files from your old profile, you can continue with the steps below.

Finding Problematic Files and Salvaging Safe Files

If you want to try to figure out which files in your profile are causing problems, or if you want to move a few usually-safe files containing personal data over to your new profile, follow these steps:

1. First, move/rename your old profile and create a new profile as described above.
2. Make another copy of your old profile in case something happens.
   • Creating an archive of the old profile folder is a good way to do this. Ctrl-click on the old profile folder in the Finder and choose "Create Archive of foldername" or "Compress foldername" (depending on your Mac OS X version) to create a compressed archive of your old profile folder.
3. Before attempting to copy files from your old profile across to your new profile, quit Camino if it is running.
4. The following files in your profile contain information you may wish to try to salvage: