Closed Bug 264238 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Lost all settings, home page, bookmarks, etc. like a fresh install

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

x86
Windows 98
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: wkaul, Assigned: vlad)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1 I have had firefox on my computer for about two weeks with no problems. Last night I cleaned out all the unused files from the computer using Smartbuster. I then downloaded the latest updates for AVG and spybot-S&D and ran those. After that I ran scandisc in the thurough mode and defraged using power defrag. I went to PC pitstop and ran system check there. Other than running a dated system everything was fine. This morning I turned it on checked my email accounts, read my horoscope and in general surfed around a bit. I got out of the browser, got off line and played a CD while in the shower. Got back on line used Thunderbird to write two emails then switched back to Firefox. I had to log on as a new user and I couldn't get into the default area. Note I have been having problems with IE6 not being able to download the latest update and replying to messages in MSN groups. I have also started using MSN,Yahoo and ICQ instant messengers with trillian to control them. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Firefox is like a new install 2. 3. Expected Results: Taken me to the Firefox that I had all customized the way I wanted it.
it looks like you deleted your profile, one way or another. Nothing that Firefox can do about that
Take a look at the default profile location if you use this one (http://www.holgermetzger.de/pdl.html). If the files exists the profile path get lost. Otherwise your data got lost. :/ Normally i prefer to create a profile on another partition as on the system drive. It will be easier to handle and safer against system crashes. You can create one by using the profile manager and specifying another directory.
>I had to log on as a new user and I couldn't get into the default area. This probably describes creation of a new profile (as you could not logon as a new user while switching between applications). You created a new profile - you got it. Reboot and start the profile manager, select your default profile. That should help. If it doesn't (and files with settings/bookmarks etc are gone from HD), that's probably bug 230032.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change
QA Contact: mconnor → bookmarks
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