225587 - incorrect default location directory for cache files on Windows

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 74085

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect)

Description

[Benoît Rigaut]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Default Mozilla cache directory configuration on Windows is under C:\Documents
and Settings\brigaut\Application Data\Mozilla

Thus Microsoft is very precise about not using this "Application Data" directory
for temporary storage because of roaming profiles synchronisation:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/policy/policy/profiles_directory.asp

>>>>>Local Settings Application settings and data that do not roam with the
profile. Usually the settings or data in this directory are computer-specific,
or they are too large to roam effectively. This directory contains the following
subfolders: Application Data, History, Temp, Temporary Internet Files.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
This configuration errors leads to impossible synchronisation when logging in ou
logging out on windows if the profile directory is on a server (too many file to
synchronise)
Actual Results:  
N/A

Expected Results:  
Use the "Local Settings" directory instead:

C:\Documents and Settings\brigaut\Local Settings\

Proposal for the default cache directory:

C:\Documents and Settings\brigaut\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Cache

thus the directory in default configuration should be

C:\Documents and Settings\brigaut\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla

... because oddly you have to point to an upper directory instead of the exact
cache directory containing cache files

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please search before you file a bug, this one is very easy to find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74085 ***

Comment 2

[benc]

V/dupe.