Upgrade StorageMigrating preferences and profile of Zotero 4 for Firefox to another location for use with Zotero 6
I need to migrate the preferences and profile (not just the data directory and zotero.sqlite) of Zotero 4 for Firefox to the relevant folder of Zotero 6, in order to avoid manually setting Zotero's preferences one-by-one in the UI window (when eyeballing two preferences UI windows of Zotero 4 and 6, and copying the checkboxes & text fields from one preferences UI window to the other).
For my use case, I noticed that some preferences of Zotero 4 for Firefox are stored in \PortableApps\FirefoxPortableESR\Data\profile\prefs.js, which also contains quite a lot of other settings for Firefox portable and other extensions. However, preferences of Zotero 5 & 6 are stored in \PortableApps\ZoteroPortable\Data\Mozilla\Profile\prefs.js, which doesn't contain too many stuffs other than those related to Zotero. So how can I migrate the preferences of Zotero 4 for Firefox to another location for use with Zotero 6 (without setting them one-by-one manually by eyeballing 2 UI windows)?
I have this concern because for Zotero Better Bibtex, its preferences UI window & tabs contain too many options to manually set one-by-one, and I have too many automatic export in Better Bibtex, which is impractical to manually set one-by-one. It seems that Better Bibtex has a "better-bibtex" folder and several "betterbibtex.sqlite.bak"-like files under my Zotero data directory \PortableApps\FirefoxPortableESR\Data\profile\zotero. If the automatic exports are stored in these files & folder, then probably it's OK to simply copy all the contents from the old Zotero data directory to the new one for Zotero 6 (but please correct me if it's not the case). But if the automatic exports are stored in somewhere else, it would be a nightmare, and I've no idea about how to migrate them...
Thanks in advance!
For my use case, I noticed that some preferences of Zotero 4 for Firefox are stored in \PortableApps\FirefoxPortableESR\Data\profile\prefs.js, which also contains quite a lot of other settings for Firefox portable and other extensions. However, preferences of Zotero 5 & 6 are stored in \PortableApps\ZoteroPortable\Data\Mozilla\Profile\prefs.js, which doesn't contain too many stuffs other than those related to Zotero. So how can I migrate the preferences of Zotero 4 for Firefox to another location for use with Zotero 6 (without setting them one-by-one manually by eyeballing 2 UI windows)?
I have this concern because for Zotero Better Bibtex, its preferences UI window & tabs contain too many options to manually set one-by-one, and I have too many automatic export in Better Bibtex, which is impractical to manually set one-by-one. It seems that Better Bibtex has a "better-bibtex" folder and several "betterbibtex.sqlite.bak"-like files under my Zotero data directory \PortableApps\FirefoxPortableESR\Data\profile\zotero. If the automatic exports are stored in these files & folder, then probably it's OK to simply copy all the contents from the old Zotero data directory to the new one for Zotero 6 (but please correct me if it's not the case). But if the automatic exports are stored in somewhere else, it would be a nightmare, and I've no idea about how to migrate them...
Thanks in advance!
So now if I simply copy this old prefs.js used by Zotero 4 for Firefox from \PortableApps\FirefoxPortableESR\Data\profile\ to C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Zotero\Zotero\Profiles\[randomstring] (or \PortableApps\ZoteroPortable\Data\Mozilla\Profile\ for the portable build), will that work? Or in other words, will all preferences of Zotero be migrated to version 6? And since the old prefs.js used by Zotero 4 for Firefox contains quite a lot of other settings for Firefox portable and other extensions, will this create any conflicts or similar (if I simply copy this old prefs.js to Zotero 6's profile directory)?
extensions.zotero.. Plugins likely have prefixes of their own. So I would just copy those lines.