195984 - Local file bookmarks not migrated properly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Waldemar Horwat]

Local file bookmarks used to have the url format:

file:///volume-name/path-name

Recent browser builds changed the format they expect to:

file:///path-name

This renders existing bookmarks pointing to local files unusable when the
browser is upgraded from 7.0.x to a recent build.

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

sounds like something nsLocalFileOSX should maybe handle automagically??

Comment 2

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

I don't think so. There would be a perf hit which we can ill-afford if
nsLocalFile::InitWith[Native]Path() were to do this conversion. If anything, the
file:// handler could do it since only file:// URLs have this problem.

-> Networking:File since it's a problem with file:// URLs in general.

Comment 3

[Darin Fisher]

yeah, i suppose something could be added to nsFileChannel::EnsureStream.

Comment 4

[Waldemar Horwat]

As an aside, see bug 195985 to see what happens when you select one of the
unmigrated bookmarks when there are no windows open -- you get an alert with one
button "OK" which is grayed out and can't be clicked.

Comment 5

[benc]

Bug 197397 excerpts the Networking:file issues, so I'm sending this back to
bookmarks so they can remember to test it.

Comment 6

[Pierre Chanial]

over to Jan, he's been working on MacOS local files

Comment 7

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

This was fixed by checkin for bug 197379.