105656 - Release Notes (0.9.5 ~ 1.1) have wrong prefs.js (profile) location

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Linh Pham]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011
BuildID:    None

Under the "Setting User Preferences using prefs.js" section of the 0.9.5 release
notes, the profile directory given for Windows is:

%WINDOWS%\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\<profilename>\xxxxxxxx.slt\ on Windows

Under Windows NT (or for those who upgraded from NT 4.0 to Windows 2000, leaving
the file system intact), the profile information is stored under:

%WINDOWS%\Profiles\%USERNAME%\[Local Settings]\Application
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\<profilename>\xxxxxxxx.slt\ on Windows

Under Windows 2000, the profile information is stored under:

\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\<profilename>\xxxxxxxx.slt\ on Windows


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Browse to the directories given in the description on the apropriate operating
system.

Actual Results:  On my clean install of Windows 2000 Professional and Mozilla
0.9.5, my Mozilla profile directory is located under:

C:\Documents and Settings\lpham\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\lpham\nwf2tceu.slt

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

not sure what precisly this bug is about...?

Comment 2

[Linh Pham]

Just that the information presented in the release notes is not correct. I 
didn't know how to categorize it correct or who to write to.

Comment 3

[benc]

cc: endico, she has been doing some relnote updating.

I have some draft documentation on my site that I'll update, and eventually
submit to mozilla when I have time.

Comment 4

[Torben]

This bug is very old. Is the information given in the 1.2beta release note still
incorrect? If not this bug should be closed.

Comment 5

[Linh Pham]

Under Windows 2000, it looks like the path to the user directory (aka
%USERPROFILE%) can be:

%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%

or

%SYSTEMROOT%\Profile

The former is used for new installations of Windows 2000/XP and the latter is
used on machines that upgraded from NT4.

So to simplify it, you can drop the entry to Windows 2000 and change Windows to
Windows NT/2000/XP. 

Comment 6

[rudman]

-->endico, cc'ing Jatin.

Comment 7

[Daniel Wang]

curiously, from 0.9.5 to 1.1 release notes, section
"Setting User Preferences using user.js" all have incorrect
reference to profile location.

Comment 8

[Owen Marshall (Not reading bugmail)]

Owen is taking QA for "repeating relnote" bugs. Sorry for the spam; search for
the previous string to find and delete these messages.

Comment 9

[Daniel Wang]

fixed for 1.0.x release notes
-> me

Comment 10

[Daniel Wang]

1.1 relnotes fixed too. ignore everything before 1.0 -> fixed

Comment 11

[Owen Marshall (Not reading bugmail)]

*bugspam*