193751 - Bookmarks file and other preferences are deleted when disk is full

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 190136

(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect)

Description

[Martin Richartz]

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

When Mozilla can't write to disk because it's full (at session end or when
crashing) the bookmark file is truncated/deleted. This is more than *serious*. I
lost bookmarks I collected over years!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make disk full. In OS X the startup disk is not user writable any more if
less than 5 % of its capacity are left (I may be wrong on the exact percentage)
2. Run Mozilla and add some bookmarks or change them otherwise
3. Quit Mozilla, and all your bookmarks are gone. Sometimes even all preferences

Actual Results:  
You end up with a virgin bookmark file (apparently created when Mozilla starts
and doesn't find a valid bookmark file)

Expected Results:  
It should not delete the old bookmark file and give a hint that it can't save
the modified bookmark file

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

should be fixed with bug 86501, doesn't this work on OS X or is this regressed ?

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

See bug 164244 comment #17 and maybe bug 186923.

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

Reassigning to Preferences: Backend.

Comment 4

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 190136 ***