227734 - All Bookmarks and menu changes but not passwords crashed after shutdowning PC by cutting power off

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 218636

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[david salm]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

After i shutdowned the PC brutally by cutting of power, all bookmarks and
changes in the Bars crashed. I surfed with Mozialla Firebird while doing this.
I did not try to reproduce the bug.
The passwords didnt remove.
I use the >German version of Mozilla Firebird.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Surf with Mozilla Firebird on any webpage
2.Cut off power
3.Try and look what's on with your bookmarks.

Actual Results:  
Didn't try, hadn't time. If i have, i will try. This bugreport is eating up
enough of my time.

Expected Results:  
Not changing the bookmarks and bars.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

if you cut the power to a PC, files can get corrupted (which is why you see
things like scandisk/chkdsk run. and why you're not supposed to do it).

Duping against the only bug that addresses a potential fix for this, namely
maintaining a backup file that can be restored in case of corruption.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 218636 ***

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change