248651 - Bookmarks.html "multiplies" itself - New bookmarks are not stored

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 157152

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Volker Merschmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421

Mozilla makes a copy of bookmarks.html named bookmarks-#.html (# is the counting
number) each time I file a bookmark or close the Navigator window.
In the first case the bookmark is not filed too.
Today I have seen the counting number I have found was 9999 and Mozilla
interrupts his work in Mail and Navigator window every few seconds.
I can see that this is happening even if nobody touches the running system,
every 15 seconds.
I have a multi-user system where the other user(s) (my wife) share my bookmarks
and mail-account, which is installed in my personal files.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Dup of bug 157152? Is your bookmark.html file permission set to read only?

Comment 2

[Volker Merschmann]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Dup of bug 157152? Is your bookmark.html file permission set to read only?
No, this has been my first check.

Comment 3

[Volker Merschmann]

The profile directory was read-only. I have used as CD-Backup for transfer from
my old system.
Now it works!

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

Ahh goodies. Thanks for the quick replies! Reopening since there isn't an actual
fix here.

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

..and dup'ing instead

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157152 ***