249854 - don't assume installing product on C:

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b

No matter which OS I run (Windoze or OS/2) you can not assume that the component
being installed (Mozilla, Thunderbird, Firefox) is being installed on C:. I keep
my boot partition as small as possible. 

Specifically while MOST of the product can get installed to a different drive,
the profile information and mail areas ALWAYS gets shoved onto the C:. I believe
this should be in a subdirectory off the directory where the product is installed.

PLEASE NOTE: Until my previous bug regarding changing my email address gets
fixed, my current email address is [e-mail]. The one in the database
([e-mail]) is no longer reachable.

Thanks Leon

This bug applies to Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird as they all seem to use
similar mechanisms.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
Profile gets shoved onto C: buried down in one of the userid trees.

Expected Results:  
Profile should be located in the installation tree of the product.

Comment 1

[Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE]

email address got changed this AM (7/5/04)

Comment 2

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

The profile is not assumed to be installed on C:

It's installed inside the Windows user profile directory. 
If you don't want this to be on the C drive, you need to configure the OS so
that the user profile directory goes elsewhere.
So it's a Windows problem, not a Mozilla problem.

Comment 3

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

You can find details about how to change the user profile location here :
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q322014&

Some more info about profile related registry entries :
http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/realmen/det/skel.en.html

I suggest to WONTFIX this, the problem has to and can be solved at the OS level,
even if it's a bit cumbersome.

Comment 4

[Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE]

but I am not using this product just on Windoze. Since the installer KNOWS where
things are going it should be relatively easy to modify it. Matter of fact you
could add a radio button to the installer to install like it does now OR install
into the product directory. You have to think out of the box and not just
windoze...leon

Comment 5

[Patrick]

Concerning the program files: The installer allows you to pick the location,
suggesting the location specified by the OS where the \program files\ are. In my
case [win xp], Mozilla defaults to the d:\ drive. So i think your statement
concerning the location of the program files isn't correct. 

Concerning the profile files: they will be created in what the OS says is the
correct path. If you want the profile somewhere else, you can run the profile
manager [e.g., via using the command line -P]. 

The installer follows the location as dictated by the platforms specs. For
people that have other needs, provisions are in place. Marking as Worksforme.