123703 - Installation Gives Poor Control Over File Locations

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 24954

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

[Bernie]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020202
BuildID:    2002020208

I use my D partition for applications and data. While Mozilla allows me
to install to my D:\APPS folder, it will automatically use the
C:\Windows\Profile folder for mail & cache and there is no graceful
way to move it to the D: partition.

File locations should be handled much better

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.See Description
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Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

I think you're talking about the browser profile manager, not the mailnews
database. All the browser data goes where the profile mgr puts it, as well the
mail/news data. Mail allows you to put your local folders on a different
directory, or a different drive, of course.

Comment 2

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

Using the profile wizard, it's possible to create a profile anywhere you like.
But, it will automatically migrate a 4.x profile only to C:\Windows\xxx That's
what's happening here since you're talking about installation so making dup of
that bug. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24954 ***

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

yeah, dup indeed.