221206 - Change Storage folder for mails etc. couldn't be done like under Netscape 4.x

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 151688

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Thilo Straub]

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

In Netscape 4.7, I could change my local directory by klicking
"browse/durchsuchen" with my mouse.
When Mozilla 0.9x and later occured, this feature was killed, it never existed
any more, and Mozilla creates a unreproducable Directory name by characters and
numbers.
Any installation, when system is reinstalled, the directory name is new, even If
the name of my account is the same, like "Administrator" or "Thilo".

I want it like it has been before, like in Netscape 4.7, and like I can define
the installation dir of Mozilla.

It's the same in Mozilla Firebird, the same mistake. Or lack of a fine feature.

By the time: If I update Mozilla and install it into the same directory like the
predecessor, Bookmarks are deleted, and the preferences like privacy, internet
search etc. are overwritten.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create an account, open mail window
2.Go to "Mail and Newsgroup account settings".
3.Go to "Server Settings"
4.Go to "Local Directory"


Actual Results:  
I can manually enter another directory

Expected Results:  
There should have been a button "browse" like in Netscape 4.x

Same lack of browsing button is in Firebird, too.

Same lack on all operating systems.

Comment 1

[Jon Henry]

If I understand you correctly, you would like a Browse button for the Local
directory box in the Mail settings. If so, this is a duplicate of bug 151688. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151688 ***

Comment 2

[Thilo Straub]

Yes, I want to be able to click at a "browse" button to change the storage
directory for mails and settings.

Yes, my SETTINGS, too

Comment 3

[Jon Henry]

Ah, ok. I think the other bug you may be interested in then is bug 125721, it
deals with being able to choose where your profile will be located (your profile
stores all your settings, browser history, cache, etc.).

Comment 4

[Thilo Straub]

Yes, not only defining the mail directory but as well the profile directory 
with all my settings and configuration, or better TWO BROWSING BUTTONS for each 
purpose (sometimes it's better that the mail directory is seperate from the 
profile directory, e. g. if you want different partitions for mailing and 
profile folders.).

Regards, Thilo