Closed Bug 1868243 Opened 2 years ago Closed 9 months ago

Incompatible profile warning "You have launched an older version of Thunderbird. A new version of Thunderbird may have made changes to your profile ..." is unhelpful/useless

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Version:
Thunderbird 120
Platform:
All
Unspecified
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1867665

People

(Reporter: mitra_lists, Unassigned)

References

Details

There are frequent requests to bug reporters to try and find the correct revision - but on going back to a previous major release (e.g. from 121 to 120) there is a message about incompatible profiles.

Others have said that its OK to go back to some previous version but not others.

Given that there is no way for non-developers to know when this message is real (and there is a risk of destroying real data) and when it can be ignored, I'd like to suggest that the message is either a: removed as unhelpful, or b: fixed so it only occurs when a profile is really incompatible.

Other platforms I've used keep a version number that is linked to the format of the data, not to the major revision that created it, that number is revised when, and only when, incompatibilities are introduced, so it is clear what data can be used with what revisions.

See Also: → 1867665
Type: defect → enhancement

Not sure why I didn't just dup this right away.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 months ago
Duplicate of bug: 1867665
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Summary: Incompatible profile message is unhelpful/useless → Incompatible profile warning "You have launched an older version of Thunderbird. A new version of Thunderbird may have made changes to your profile ..." is unhelpful/useless
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