195221 - No disk in drive error after start

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Thomas Boerkel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

I have a virtual removable drive(Softick CardExport) and if I start Mozilla
(tested with 1.2.1 and 1.3b), I get the No disk error for that drive. I have to
click cancel several times and then I can continue. After a restart of Mozilla,
I get the same error again. It seems that somehow Mozilla scans all drives at
startup, but does not catch those errors.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
Error box multiple times.

Expected Results:  
Catch the error and continue silently.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter:
Do you have a file:// link for that drive in your bookmarks ?

Comment 2

[Thomas Boerkel]

You are right. I removed it and the error is gone. That must have been generated
through the conversion of my old Netscape profile, which I installed once on
that drive, where it still was a real drive (on my old PC).

Thanks for the super fast answer. :-)

Still, maybe Mozilla should not check this at startup.

Comment 3

[MrJeff]

I tried recreating this using a floppy disc. It doesn't seem to check the
bookmark unless I told it to do so. Could you try recreating this bookmark and
see if moz accesses it if you don't tell it to update this bookmark / make a
copy offline (which should be the default option)

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> wfm

AFAIk there are reasons why mozilla trys to access the drive..

Comment 5

[Thomas Boerkel]

The bookmark is the "Instant Message" bookmark from my old Netscape installation
and it looks like this:
file:///F|/Program Files/Netscape/Users/direkt/launch.aim

And as it has been automatically converted from my Netscape profile, I did not
tell it to keep a copy offline or update it automatically. BTW, I do not see
this option in the properties of the bookmark.