258517 - Standardize profile storage location to agree with Firefox and Sunbird

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 247973

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Favia]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040907 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040907 Firefox/0.9.1+

Currently Thunderbird stores its profiles and settings in:
Linux: ~/.Thunderbird
Windows: X:/Documents and Settings/~/Application Data/Thunderbird

Firefox and Sunbird have both switched to storing their respective profiles
under a mozilla folder. This bug suggest that we move thunderbird preferences to
follow suit:

Linux: ~/.mozilla/Thunderbird
Windows: X:/Documents and Settings/Application Data/Mozilla/Thunderbird

Essentially i am suggesting adding "mozilla/" to the profile path that is
gleaned from the users "Home direcotry" id imagine. This wont change the world
but it will simplify the process that many users go through to reformat their
PC's and move their profiles.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Michael Favia]

I dont know how much trouble relocating this would be but it would be nice to
have it in the Final 1.0 release so that it doesnt change on users of a "feature
complete" project later on.

Comment 2

[Nikos Platis]

Related bugs: Bug 260765 for Linux, Bug 247973 for Windows.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247973 ***