Closed Bug 332569 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

read-only files in profile directory are overwritten (such as bookmarks, passwords)

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
General
Version:
1.8 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 257288

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0

I want Mozilla not to overwrite my passwords file (*.s) - I have my reasons for that. With Mozilla 1.7.12 you could just set a file's (the *.s file or bookmarks.html for example) read-only attribute to prevent Mozilla from overwriting it. This does not work with SeaMonkey anymore.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set the read-only attribute for bookmarks.html
2. add a bookmark in SeaMonkey
Actual Results:  
SeaMonkey renames the original file to bookmarks.html.moztemp and creates a new bookmarks.html.
Same behaviour for the *.s file which stores one's passwords.

Expected Results:  
If SeaMonkey cannot write to a file, show the user a warning message with "Retry", "Ignore" and "Ignore and don't show this warning again" options.
Summary: read-only readonly files in profile directory are overwritten (such as bookmarks, passwords) → read-only files in profile directory are overwritten (such as bookmarks, passwords)
Version: unspecified → 1.8 Branch

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 257288 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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