215174 - bookmark file overwritten on upgrade from Moz 1.3-1.4

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193749

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[John Stoner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

I upgraded my browser from 1.3 to 1.4. It seemed to go OK. As part of the
process, it started the browser as root. I killed it and started as me. 

The bookmarks were missing. Cookies were there, browser history was there, but
bookmarks were gone. 

I went to my .mozilla direxctory to se what happened:

August 5, 2003 @ 02:53:51PM: ~/.mozilla/jstoner/h84s294v.slt
[jstoner@erzulie]> ls -l bookmarks*
-rw-------    1 jstoner  jstoner       272 Aug  5 14:21 bookmarks.html
-rw-------    1 jstoner  jstoner      9773 Jan 13  2002 bookmarks.html.bak
August 5, 2003 @ 02:54:38PM: ~/.mozilla/jstoner/h84s294v.slt
[jstoner@erzulie]> more bookmarks.html
<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>
<!-- This is an automatically generated file.
     It will be read and overwritten.
     DO NOT EDIT! -->
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<TITLE>Bookmarks</TITLE>
<H1>Bookmarks</H1>

<DL><p>
</DL><p>
August 5, 2003 @ 02:54:56PM: ~/.mozilla/jstoner/h84s294v.slt
[jstoner@erzulie]> more bookmarks.html.bak
<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>
<!-- This is an automatically generated file.  It will be read and overwritten.
 Do Not Edit! -->
<TITLE>Bookmarks for </TITLE>
<H1>Bookmarks for </H1>
<DL><p>
    <DT><H3>Personal Toolbar Folder</H3>
    <DL><p>
        <DT><A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/network/main/login.html">Red Hat
Network</A>
        <DT><A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/training/">Training</A>
        <DT><A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/apps/support">Support</A>
        <DT><A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/products/software/">Software</A>
        <DT><A
HREF="http://hardware.redhat.com/redhatready/cgi-bin/us/db-hcl.cgi">Hardware</A>
        <DT><A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/devnet">Developers</A>
        <DT><A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/embedded/">Embedded</A>
        <DT><A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/apps/search/">Search</A>
        <DT><A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/linux_docs.html">Documentation</A>
        <DT><A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/downloads.html">Downloads</A>
        <DT><A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/">Shop</A>
        <DT><A HREF="http://www.wideopen.com/news/html">News</A>

...

(the .bak file seemed to be the version that came with Red Hat. I may have
created it myself, I don't recall.)

My multi-megabyte, eight year accumulation of bookmarks seems to have been
overwritten. I'd throttle someone if they were close at hand.

I am running Red Hat 8.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

you're passed the installer

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

You have killed the process. IMHO this is a dupe of Bug 193749 "bookmarks and
personal preferences are lost after system crash due to power failure".

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193749 ***