221121 - configuration data lost FAT Filesystem

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 132517

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Gernot]

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

If you have Mozilla running and you turn off your computer without shutting
down, and you have a FAT Filesystem, sometimes Mozilla is unable to start next
time you turn on your computer because the file prefs.js has been damaged and
you have to repair it yourselfs.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla and e. g. check for new mails.
2. Turn off your computer
3. Turn on you computer and look if all your configuration data are still here.
Actual Results:  
Mozilla comes with errors like: wrong character in prefs.js ...

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

wrong database for the bug, you should look there:

http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?Catalog=LCID%3D1033%26CDID%3DEN-US-KB%26PRODLISTSRC%3DON&Product=&KeywordType=ANY&Titles=false&numDays=&maxResults=25&Queryl=Shutdown&Query=Shutdown&QuerySource=gsfxSearch_Query&srchExtraQry=

To prevent this bug happening in the future, maybe you should look there, how to
shutdown windows.

http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/centers/windows2000.asp

Comment 2

[Gernot]

Very funny!!!!
I know how to shutdown Windows! 
But the problem is, if your computer crashes, maybe the Mozilla configuration
file gets damaged!

Comment 3

[WD]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132517 ***