Closed Bug 216431 Opened 21 years ago Closed 19 years ago

canot add new bookmarks

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED EXPIRED

People

(Reporter: cphil, Assigned: p_ch)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030815
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030815

Any new links added to the bookmarks are not saved when the browser is shut
down. This occurs wheter the "Add Bookmark" is used, or whether they are added
in the Bookmark Manager. Also, and new folders created in Bookmark Manager are
lost when the browser is shut down.  I only noticed this problem about one week
ago.  I'm not sure if it has occurred since I installed v1.5a, or has just
recently started.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Add bookmark or new folder for bookmarks
2.Close the browser
3.restart the browser, and the new additions have vanished

Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
added the new linked bookmarks

Classic theme... nothing else I can think of that would seem relevant
WFM on WinXP trunk 2003081515.

Reporter:

Did you install Mozilla on top of another installation ? If you did, please
uninstall and delete your mozilla directory, and do a clean install.
If it works, resolve this bug as WFM.

Have you tried this using a fresh profile ? If not, please create a new profile,
and try reproducing the problem.

Is your Mozilla profile directory write-protected ?
Severity: major → normal
On further checking, I found that on Aug 5, 2003, at 7:05AM, which was well 
after the installation of the build of v1.5a, for some reason TEN THOUSAND zero 
byte bookmark-xxxx.html (where xxxx = a number from 1 to 9999) files were 
created in the following directory:

\Documents and Settings\Administrator\ApplicationData\Mozilla\
Profiles\cphil\rm08r1ix.slt

Checked all files and directories and found none that were read-only.
It appears that I have worked around the problem by first closing the browser, 
renaming the bookmark.html files to bookmark.html.old, deleting the 9,999 other 
bookmark-xxxx.html files, restarting the browser to let it create a new 
bookmark.html file, then imported the old bookmarks to this new file.

Only reason I didn't mark this as WFM now, it the unresolved issue as to the 
cause of the problem to start... Browser related, or caused by some external 
source.  Ideas??? 
can you post bookmark.html.old as an attachment?
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
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