184281 - Installs Mozilla folder with Profile inside another folder; installer does not ask where I want it.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55309

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

[Phantom Menace]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Upon first launch of Mozilla 1.2.1, the Mozilla folder containing my Default
Profile is installed like this: > HD > Design > Documents > Mozilla. I'm never
asked where I want it.

If I delete it and relaunch Mozilla, I get the Confirm Migration dialog;
continuing with that and creating a new Default User profile, then selecting the
path to install it works, but I have to reset all the Preferences again. But if
you go back and check the previous location for the Mozilla folder where the
Default Profile was initially installed, you'll see it's back again.

Deleting it and then relaunching Mozilla takes you back to the Confirm Migration
dialog again; a never-ending cycle. It seems that Mozilla arbitrarily picks
someplace to install this folder and it's data, and even if you tell it to put
it somewhere else with the Migration Manager, it keeps defaulting to the initial
location, so you may have two different copies of the Default Profile, one of
which seems to go unused.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install or update Mozilla to current version (I used the install stub, not
the full download.)

2. Launch Mozilla for the first time; choose Edit > Preferences from the menu
bar and select flip-down triangle for Advanced, then select Cache. Without a
doubt, it's not a path you selected. Select a new path of:

  HD > System Folder > Preferences > Mozilla 

(you'll probably have to create a new folder named Mozilla in Preferences)

3. Go to the location that Mozilla had originally selected for the destination
of the Mozilla folder to hold your Profile and/or Cache. Trash the folder, then
Quit Mozilla.

4. Relaunch Mozilla; you should get the Confirm Migration dialog again, forcing
you to do what you just completed a few moments ago. When you're done, check the
previous location where your Mozilla folder for the Profile/Cache was; the
folder should have reappeared again.


Actual Results:  
I'm stuck in a never-ending cycle of delete and re-migrate.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should ask upon installation or first launch where the user wants the
Profiles and Cache folder to be located, and not install them anywhere else
unless you specifically change the location through the Preferences panel.

Barring that, if you change the location of that folder using the Preferences
panel, Mozilla should not go back and reinstall the folder and the Profile/Cache
information where they were previously located,

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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Comment 2

[gordon]

This appears to be an Installer issue.

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This might be profile migration, but ownership of general profile issues is more
of a sure thing so I'll stick it there to make sure this is seen.

Not critical, I don't see any dataloss other than the files you yourself are
deleting manually.

Comment 4

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

> Upon first launch of Mozilla 1.2.1, the Mozilla folder containing my Default
Profile is installed like this: > HD > Design > Documents > Mozilla. I'm never
asked where I want it.

True, if no profile exists, mozilla will create the default profile in
:Documents:Mozilla:Profiles:default. If you need your profile to be elsewhere,
you can create a new one and then delete "default" from the profile mgr dialog.

Trashing the profile's directory in the Finder instead of using the profile mgr
will not work - that's why there is a way to delete the profile using the
profile mgr.

The folder :Documents:Mozilla: is not a single profile. It contains the list of
profiles and other data as well. You can put your profile (which, by default, is
a subdirectory of that) elsewhere but :Documents:Mozilla: can't be deleted.

Comment 5

[Grace Bush]

also user cannot choose where to store migrated profile :( 
see bug 55309 - this may be duplicate? 
user wants to be able to select folder for profile storage?

Comment 6

[K'Trina Medina]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55309 ***

Comment 7

[K'Trina Medina]

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