125456 - Lost general and E-mail account preferences when file system got full.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 86501

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[mozjoy5.10.joek]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002020415

The file system where my home directory is mounted became full.  I exited
mozilla; when I restarted it:

1) My preferences were gone;
2) My bookmarks were truncated; I have about 400K of them, only the first 260K
were still there.
3) My email account preferences were also gone.

I think Mozilla should be more robust in this situation.



Reproducible: Didn't try

Actual Results:  I don't have the ability to duplicate this situation (full file
system) here.

Expected Results:  I think Mozilla should never (or almost never) lose saved
preferences / bookmarks / mail preferences. If necessary, it could make backups
of these files?

Comment 1

[Cody Petry]

I also think there should be a utility that mozilla should have that would allow
the backup and restore of this kind of data via a floppy. Maybe a backup/restore
wizard would be nice?

Comment 2

[Pierre Chanial]

the bookmark issue is covered by bug 92919.
setting preference category for further triaging

Comment 3

[Pierre Chanial]

default pref owner and QA

Comment 4

[Samir Gehani]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86501 ***

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

if you decide to reopen this bug, please clarify why.

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