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Recently my previously stable K-Meleon 7.5.1 has developed an annoying bug

My K-Meleon is installed on the D:\ drive with all files and profile, two days ago it started as if I had just installed it with no bookmarks, home page, sessions or any other settings

On inspection it had made a new profile & Profile.ini in
C:\Documents and Settings\MyUser\Application Data\K-Meleon\

The only way I could get K-Meleon to run as before was to use

“Run As” Current User, “Protect My Computer And Data From Unauthorized Program Activity”

This worked but is no real cure as all other ways to invoke again starts the “as just installed” K-Meleon

I tried to re-install (as update) over the old version, but still no change

I have (for now) copied my old profile to
C:\Documents and Settings\MyUser\Application Data\K-Meleon\

But want to get back to the way it has run for as long as I can remember



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/06/2018 08:11AM by Grizz.

what if just create EMPTY profile.ini in KM folder on D: and set it to read-only?

Thanks for reading
I tried that (after renaming my old profile) it still goes to the C:\ one

Grizz, please try this:
Click Help > Troubleshooting > Check Privilege
What does it say?

And if you don't mind download this info macro:
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?9,142878
into the macros folder, restart the browser, and click on
Help > Troubleshooting INFO

When asked to "Show more?" just click cancel and take a look at the report page:
does it really say "Profile inside KM (portable)" ?
Then scroll to the middle and click on the Profile link: does it open the correct folder?
Then scroll down to the bottom: Any of the tips any helpful?

I don't appear to have "Trouble shooting" on Help, or on any other menu

Can you provide a screenshot of your KM?

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Grizz

My K-Meleon is installed on the D:\ drive with all files and profile, two days ago it started as if I had just installed it with no bookmarks, home page, sessions or any other settings

1.) This profile location is triggered by the presence of the file profile.ini in the folder where K-Meleon.exe is. The file can be empty.

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Grizz

On inspection it had made a new profile & Profile.ini in
C:\Documents and Settings\MyUser\Application Data\K-Meleon\

2.) This profile location is triggered by the absence of this file called profile.ini.

Solution: Create file with that name. The file can be empty. The file must be placed into the folder of K-Meleon.exe.

After that KM will normally revert to use the old profile in D:/K-Meleon7.5.1/profiles/c8svm2gy.default

c8svm2gy.default = typical random name. Used by a profile I use for years on different installs of KM

This problem comes usually if a crash or anti viral program has tempered with the file called profile.ini

The other posters in this thread already covered the other possible problems.

Just in case. Make sure that You have full rights to c8svm2gy.default or whatever Your profile's name is. Or better the whole K-Meleon install folder.

Right click on folder opens Windows properties....

3.) profiles.ini is the name of the new file in C:\Documents and Settings\MyUser\Application Data\K-Meleon\

That file points to the name and location of the folders of the different profiles.

Actually there is another at D:/K-Meleon7.5.1/profiles/profiles.ini

If not?

Create it and use the code below as example.
This file is more often damaged than profile.ini,
The effect is a new virgin profile next to the old profile.


In the case I chose above the file says:

[Profile0]
Name=default
Path=c8svm2gy.default
IsRelative=1
Default=1
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

Which are the setting of the K-Meleon that writes this text for me and You.
It will be used as soon as Your/my K-Meleon.exe finds a profile.ini when it starts.

p.s. profile.ini is the file that makes K-Meleon portable. Your old setup.
That also made versions up to 1.7 compatible to win98 and other old Windows versions.

So there are two files with a similar name and different functions.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/08/2018 07:22AM by guenter.