For over a year now I have not been using SM's browser on a day-to-day basis, ever since SM browser "forgot" all my bookmarks and history, even though Mail continues to work just fine. It's as though SM browser is unable to see my profile. At the time it happened I posted here for help but with no joy.
Since then I have been using Safari day-to-day, but I still use SM browser from time to time when some site doesn't work properly on Safari. Today on just such an accasion, shortly after SM browser told me it had blocked some pop-up windows, it re-opened my "previous" session, ie the last session before my problems began over a year ago!
However it still couldn't see any bookmarks or history.
At the top of the visible tab on the frontmost window this message was displayed this message :
"The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because one of SeaMonkey's files is in use by another application. Some security software can cause this problem."
I don't have any security software that I'm aware of. Can anyone use this message to diagnose and solve my problem?
Geoff Walker wrote:
> For over a year now I have not been using SM's browser on a day-to-day
> basis, ever since SM browser "forgot" all my bookmarks and history, even
> though Mail continues to work just fine. It's as though SM browser is
> unable to see my profile. At the time it happened I posted here for
> help but with no joy.
> Since then I have been using Safari day-to-day, but I still use SM
> browser from time to time when some site doesn't work properly on
> Safari. Today on just such an accasion, shortly after SM browser told
> me it had blocked some pop-up windows, it re-opened my "previous"
> session, ie the last session before my problems began over a year ago!
> However it still couldn't see any bookmarks or history.
> At the top of the visible tab on the frontmost window this message was
> displayed this message :
> "The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because one of
> SeaMonkey's files is in use by another application. Some security
> software can cause this problem."
> I don't have any security software that I'm aware of. Can anyone use
> this message to diagnose and solve my problem?
> Thanks,
> Geoff
Geoff, on Windows systems, SeaMonkey/Mozilla Suite did have a problem where it would not close down properly (due to system crashes, whatever), so the "prefs.js" file would be marked as still in use, so when SeaMonkey was re-started, a new, empty, profile would be created. Don't know if this was/is your problem!!
Have a look at Tools->Switch Profiles. Do you see more profiles than you thought you had?? If so, check out the others to see if they contain your missing bookmarks.
If that doesn't fix your problem, your bookmarks and history (and some other stuff) are now (since ver 2.1, I think) stored in a file called "places.sqlite". With SeaMonkey closed, do a search for this to see if you have more than one. If so, in a thread called "Is there a way to merge two different two local places.sqlite file copies together?" from earlier today, David E Ross has provided a method of combining two places.sqlite files.
Daniel wrote:
> Geoff Walker wrote:
>> For over a year now I have not been using SM's browser on a day-to-day
>> basis, ever since SM browser "forgot" all my bookmarks and history, even
>> though Mail continues to work just fine. It's as though SM browser is
>> unable to see my profile. At the time it happened I posted here for
>> help but with no joy.
>> Since then I have been using Safari day-to-day, but I still use SM
>> browser from time to time when some site doesn't work properly on
>> Safari. Today on just such an accasion, shortly after SM browser told
>> me it had blocked some pop-up windows, it re-opened my "previous"
>> session, ie the last session before my problems began over a year ago!
>> However it still couldn't see any bookmarks or history.
>> At the top of the visible tab on the frontmost window this message was
>> displayed this message :
>> "The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because one of
>> SeaMonkey's files is in use by another application. Some security
>> software can cause this problem."
>> I don't have any security software that I'm aware of. Can anyone use
>> this message to diagnose and solve my problem?
>> Thanks,
>> Geoff
> Geoff, on Windows systems, SeaMonkey/Mozilla Suite did have a problem
> where it would not close down properly (due to system crashes,
> whatever), so the "prefs.js" file would be marked as still in use, so
> when SeaMonkey was re-started, a new, empty, profile would be created.
> Don't know if this was/is your problem!!
> Have a look at Tools->Switch Profiles. Do you see more profiles than you
> thought you had?? If so, check out the others to see if they contain
> your missing bookmarks.
> If that doesn't fix your problem, your bookmarks and history (and some
> other stuff) are now (since ver 2.1, I think) stored in a file called
> "places.sqlite". With SeaMonkey closed, do a search for this to see if
> you have more than one. If so, in a thread called "Is there a way to
> merge two different two local places.sqlite file copies together?" from
> earlier today, David E Ross has provided a method of combining two
> places.sqlite files.
> HTH!
Before doing all the heavy lifting, try running Disk Utility and do a Repair Permissions. Also try running a utility like Onyx to flush cashes and temporary files.
Rufus <n...@home.com> wrote:
> Daniel wrote:
> > Geoff Walker wrote:
> >> For over a year now I have not been using SM's browser on a day-to-day
> >> basis, ever since SM browser "forgot" all my bookmarks and history, even
> >> though Mail continues to work just fine. It's as though SM browser is
> >> unable to see my profile. At the time it happened I posted here for
> >> help but with no joy.
> >> Since then I have been using Safari day-to-day, but I still use SM
> >> browser from time to time when some site doesn't work properly on
> >> Safari. Today on just such an accasion, shortly after SM browser told
> >> me it had blocked some pop-up windows, it re-opened my "previous"
> >> session, ie the last session before my problems began over a year ago!
> >> However it still couldn't see any bookmarks or history.
> >> At the top of the visible tab on the frontmost window this message was
> >> displayed this message :
> >> "The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because one of
> >> SeaMonkey's files is in use by another application. Some security
> >> software can cause this problem."
> >> I don't have any security software that I'm aware of. Can anyone use
> >> this message to diagnose and solve my problem?
> >> Thanks,
> >> Geoff
> > Geoff, on Windows systems, SeaMonkey/Mozilla Suite did have a problem
> > where it would not close down properly (due to system crashes,
> > whatever), so the "prefs.js" file would be marked as still in use, so
> > when SeaMonkey was re-started, a new, empty, profile would be created.
> > Don't know if this was/is your problem!!
> > Have a look at Tools->Switch Profiles. Do you see more profiles than you
> > thought you had?? If so, check out the others to see if they contain
> > your missing bookmarks.
> > If that doesn't fix your problem, your bookmarks and history (and some
> > other stuff) are now (since ver 2.1, I think) stored in a file called
> > "places.sqlite". With SeaMonkey closed, do a search for this to see if
> > you have more than one. If so, in a thread called "Is there a way to
> > merge two different two local places.sqlite file copies together?" from
> > earlier today, David E Ross has provided a method of combining two
> > places.sqlite files.
> > HTH!
> Before doing all the heavy lifting, try running Disk Utility and do a > Repair Permissions. Also try running a utility like Onyx to flush > cashes and temporary files.
Thankyou fellows for your suggestions. It's taken me a little time to respond as I've been exploring both of them. But with both your suggestions I've now fixed the problem.
First I found, downloaded and used Onyx. On its own that didn't fix the problem, although cleaning up one's files is always a good thing to do!
Moving on to Daniel's suggestions, I only have one profile so the issue of merging places.sqlite files wasn't going to be the solution. But the mention of places.sqlite made me look more closely, and I noticed that I had two other places.sqlite files, namely places.sqlite-journal and places.sqlite.corrupt, both last modified on 24/7/2011, about the time that SM browser stopped seeing my profile.
Some googling led me to http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locked_or_damaged_places.sqlite and I was able to use the suggestion there about deleting both places.sqlite and places.sqlite-journal, and then renaming places.sqlite.corrupt to places.sqlite to give me back my SM browser's full functionality.
I'm not sure how the solution I found ties into the message I had previously received :
"The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because one of SeaMonkey's files is in use by another application. Some security software can cause this problem.",
but I don't care and I'm very happy!
>> Daniel wrote:
>>> Geoff Walker wrote:
>>>> For over a year now I have not been using SM's browser on a day-to-day
>>>> basis, ever since SM browser "forgot" all my bookmarks and history, even
>>>> though Mail continues to work just fine. It's as though SM browser is
>>>> unable to see my profile. At the time it happened I posted here for
>>>> help but with no joy.
>>>> Since then I have been using Safari day-to-day, but I still use SM
>>>> browser from time to time when some site doesn't work properly on
>>>> Safari. Today on just such an accasion, shortly after SM browser told
>>>> me it had blocked some pop-up windows, it re-opened my "previous"
>>>> session, ie the last session before my problems began over a year ago!
>>>> However it still couldn't see any bookmarks or history.
>>>> At the top of the visible tab on the frontmost window this message was
>>>> displayed this message :
>>>> "The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because one of
>>>> SeaMonkey's files is in use by another application. Some security
>>>> software can cause this problem."
>>>> I don't have any security software that I'm aware of. Can anyone use
>>>> this message to diagnose and solve my problem?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Geoff
>>> Geoff, on Windows systems, SeaMonkey/Mozilla Suite did have a problem
>>> where it would not close down properly (due to system crashes,
>>> whatever), so the "prefs.js" file would be marked as still in use, so
>>> when SeaMonkey was re-started, a new, empty, profile would be created.
>>> Don't know if this was/is your problem!!
>>> Have a look at Tools->Switch Profiles. Do you see more profiles than you
>>> thought you had?? If so, check out the others to see if they contain
>>> your missing bookmarks.
>>> If that doesn't fix your problem, your bookmarks and history (and some
>>> other stuff) are now (since ver 2.1, I think) stored in a file called
>>> "places.sqlite". With SeaMonkey closed, do a search for this to see if
>>> you have more than one. If so, in a thread called "Is there a way to
>>> merge two different two local places.sqlite file copies together?" from
>>> earlier today, David E Ross has provided a method of combining two
>>> places.sqlite files.
>>> HTH!
>> Before doing all the heavy lifting, try running Disk Utility and do a
>> Repair Permissions. Also try running a utility like Onyx to flush
>> cashes and temporary files.
> Thankyou fellows for your suggestions. It's taken me a little time to
> respond as I've been exploring both of them. But with both your
> suggestions I've now fixed the problem.
> First I found, downloaded and used Onyx. On its own that didn't fix the
> problem, although cleaning up one's files is always a good thing to do!
> Moving on to Daniel's suggestions, I only have one profile so the issue
> of merging places.sqlite files wasn't going to be the solution. But the
> mention of places.sqlite made me look more closely, and I noticed that I
> had two other places.sqlite files, namely places.sqlite-journal and
> places.sqlite.corrupt, both last modified on 24/7/2011, about the time
> that SM browser stopped seeing my profile.
> Some googling led me to
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locked_or_damaged_places.sqlite and I was able
> to use the suggestion there about deleting both places.sqlite and
> places.sqlite-journal, and then renaming places.sqlite.corrupt to
> places.sqlite to give me back my SM browser's full functionality.
> I'm not sure how the solution I found ties into the message I had
> previously received :
> "The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because one of
> SeaMonkey's files is in use by another application. Some security
> software can cause this problem.",
> but I don't care and I'm very happy!
