Closed Bug 246722 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

backups.number_of_prefs_copies in prefs.js does not work

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Preferences
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: World, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040613
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040613

Even though I set backups.number_of_prefs_copies = 7 in prefs.js, no back up of
prefs.js was created(prefs.bak nor prefs.bakNN) these three months.
This caused difficulty in manual recovery from prefs.js corruption by Mozilla's bug.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Confirming with latest 1.8a1/1.8a2 trunk builds on WinNT 4.0.
I found it! The pref is now obsolete. I will file a bug for the removal of it.
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/search?string=number_of_prefs_copies

The pref was introduced by Bug 98476, but was backed out with fixes for Bug
132517 (for problems see Bug 228888), later improved by Bug 250092. As I
understand it, there is no need for the backups anymore.

So this bug could IMO be resolved.
wontfix per bug 253259.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
*** Bug 272195 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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