261016 - IE migration deletes contents of Bookmarks Toolbar Folder

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 387137

(Firefox :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

Seen on Firefox Windows build 2004-09-22-08-0.9+

-delete the Firefox folder in Application Data\Mozilla
-launch Firefix: the Import Wizard should appear.
-Select IE and run import

tested results: When Firefox opens, notice that the Bookmakrs Toolbar is empty.

expected results:  The Bookmarks toolbar contains the two installation default
bookmarks.

Comment 1

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

note:  File | Import of IE setting does not delete the Bookmarks Toolbar items.

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

From the code, I get the impression this was done on purpose.
See:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/browser/components/migration/src/nsIEProfileMigrator.cpp#411
On first start, aReplace is set to true. Then, the code is deleting the existing stuff based on that, see:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/browser/components/migration/src/nsIEProfileMigrator.cpp#1410
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/browser/components/migration/src/nsIEProfileMigrator.cpp#1159
So my guess is that when you set aReplace to false always, this bug would go away.
But I'm not sure if that should be happening.