192134 - Windows user profile space eaten up by mozilla user profile. Cannot configure different directory for mozilla user data.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, enhancement)

Description

[Markus Baechler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

Windows user profile space is limited to - lets say betwenn 2 an 8MB on most
sites. Whenever I open mozilla, I get an error message from Windows "Local user
profile space exceeded, please delete data before logging out" or something like
that. Mozilla user profil is always biggest peace of all the space eaters there.
I experimented with settings, but couldn't find any helpful parameters.
..\application data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\bcm5fn21.slt\XUL.mfl is mostly
bigger than 1 MB. How can I move it somewhere else?

Thanks for any help, Markus Baechler

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use up local windows user profile space so that there is only 1 MB left
2.Open Mozilla Browser
3.Close Mozilla Browser
4.Check your Windows user profile space

Actual Results:  
Windows local user profile space exceeded

Expected Results:  
Preferences\Advanced\NewOption: "Choose/Change profile saving location"

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

profile manager.

Comment 2

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

> Preferences\Advanced\NewOption: "Choose/Change profile saving location"

You *can* choose where to create a profile using Profile Manager's Create
Profile UI, not prefs. That part of the bug is invalid.

If you want to move an existing profile, that's possible, it's not automatic.
There are bugs on that.

If your profile is getting that large, it's probably due to disk cache, which
can be controlled by prefs: Preferences->Advanced->Cache.

Comment 3

[Paul Wyskoczka]

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