219326 - Bookmarks and cookies trashed during system crash

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193749

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Bill Davidson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

A couple of times now, Windows has crashed and when I came back up, my
bookmarks.html and cookies.txt files were corrupted (all null).  I
understand that sometimes it's hard to avoid data corruption but maybe
Mozilla could save backup copies of these important files.  I back them
up once in a while but it's a real pain.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  I don't know how to reproduce this.  It happens sometimes when Windows crashes.
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Expected Results:  
Periodically save backup copies of important configuration files and
detect corruption when it happens and use backups to recover.  It
would not be a bad idea to keep a few copies of each file.

I'm marking this critical because it causes me to lose data (my bookmarks
and cookies), which is in the description for critical.

Comment 1

[Adam Hauner]

-> Bookmarks

Comment 2

[Bill Davidson]

I didn't notice this at first but it also trashed my address book.

Comment 3

[Bill Davidson]

It happened again tonight.

Please do something about this.  Mozilla should automatically
make backups of important files and detect corruption of them
at startup and use the backups to recover.  This is a major
pain in the ass.  When it came back up, it couldn't find my
mail files and had changed all the directory names to things
like "pop.west.cox.net-11" instead of "pop.west.cox.net" and
"Local Folders-2" instead of "Local Folders".  Getting
everything back in the right place is **** me off.  I had
to edit prefs.js by hand to get some things back.  This is
apparently also one of the files that gets killed.  I had to
tell it what my mail server was and everything.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

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