223231 - Every time I close Mozilla, the bookmarks.html file inexplicably is erased, and upon opening Mozilla again, I have no bookmarks!

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221843

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Jim]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

The summary really covers it.  The bookmarks are there for as long as I keep
Mozilla open, and they all work fine.  Once I close Mozilla and open it again,
they're gone.  (I installed this version after following the instruction on
removing a previous Mozilla (1.4), but I still had a few problems.  Could it be
that I didn't install this one correctly?  It could be unrelated, but the 1.5
I'm using also tends to crash when going to the espn.com website and even ---
oddly --- when I looked at an email I forwarded home from work that contained a
web site.  I didn't open the message or click on the link --- just selecting it
in my mailbox caused Mozilla to crash.  but I gether that's a Bug for another
time.)  At any rate, I can't imagine this will be reproducable.  (Sorry.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Shut down Mozilla
2.  Open it again
3.  Poof!

Actual Results:  
The only items listed under bookmarks are "Bookmark this page," "File bookmark,"
and "Manage bookmarks."  If I bookmark a NEW page and close mozilla, the new
bookmark will be gone when I open it again.

Expected Results:  
well, they should be there.  I look in the Preferences > Mozilla > Profiles
folder, and the "bookmarks.html" file inexplicably disappears when I close
Mozilla but doesn't reappear when I open it again.

The theme is toyfactory (I'm embarrassed to say I downloaded 1.5 because I like
the theme.).  I must have done something wrong with the install, but I can't
imagine anything that would delete files like this.  Thank you for looking into
this.  Oh!  It seems similar to Bug 79411, if that helps.  (Not really the same
thing, but it also talks about mysteriously disappearing bookmarks.)

Comment 1

[timeless]

reporter: what version of OS X are you running?

Comment 2

[Jim]

Sorry --- its OSX 10.1.5 on a PowerPC G3

Comment 3

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221843 ***