156878 - Preferences getting truncated...

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 155080

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Rick Beldin]

On Windows XP w/ Mozilla 1.0 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530) I find that the prefs.js gets reset or truncated with 
some amount of frequency.    I end up keeping a copy in My Documents to refresh
it.   Today the scenario was that I accidentally launched Mozilla while I was
not logged into the company network (VPN).   Mozilla comes with both browser and
mail and the mailer complained that it could not contact my server.  Since this
was true, I dismissed the dialog, and hit ctrl-q to exit Mozilla. 

When I reconnected to the company network, brought up Mozilla again, most of my
layout was intact, yet everything to do with my two email accounts were gone. 
The size of the prefs.js in c:\Documents and Sharing\RickB\Application
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\rbeldin\nb6ngslz.slt\ was only 10k while the copy I had
squirreled away was 25k. 

All of the browser settings appeared intact.   I recovered by copying my old
prefs.js in the directory and restarting Mozilla. 

Suggestion... and perhaps this has been done already.   How about a method for
backing up the preferences and bookmarks?   A menu item to backup by hand would
then make these items available for copying to another computer without digging
around through directories.

Comment 1

[Robert Wall]

bug 147822(mozilla writes incomplete prefs.js) is probably related to this

Comment 2

[Robert Wall]

From the 1.1beta release notes:
    * Use of Mozilla's "quicklaunch" (AKA "turbo") mode may cause the deletion
of user preferences. It is recommended that you do not run quicklaunch until
this bug is fixed. (Bug 155080)

Reporter, are you using the Mozila quicklaunch feature?  Could you confirm if
you are experiencing the same bug?  

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155080 ***

Comment 3

[Rick Beldin]

(Was on vacation, sorry for the delay)

No, am not using the QuickLaunch feature.   I can't seem to isolate this to 
any particular activity.   It happened last night after reading mail.   I didn't
bring up any url's, had the mailer preview disabled, read a few emails, closed
it down, logged off and shutdown. 

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

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