Open Bug 269352 Opened 20 years ago Updated 2 years ago

"Add account" should use dynamical root folders to determine the account data location

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Account Manager
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: whimboo, Unassigned)

Details

Seeing this with the latest version 0.9+ (20041111)

Using "Add Account" for every account type (mail/rss/news) creates account data
within the default profile. It doesn't respect the current profile location!
This will cause dataloss when changing the system or moving the profile to other
computers.

This should imediately be fixed because we will get a broken profile.
Damn. This was caused by the profile migration to the network drive. There were
some prefs left to the old profile location. In fact this are all mail.root.*. 

I know that it was my fault but shouldn't point these prefs relative to the
current profile folder by default? Wouldn't it be better to change the default
locations to a dynamical created root location based of the current profile
folder? For these prefs we don't have an UI actually.
Severity: blocker → enhancement
Keywords: regression
Summary: "Add account" does not respect current profile folder instead the default profile folder is used → "Add account" should use dynamical root folders to determine the account data location
QA Contact: account-manager
Assignee: mscott → nobody
Severity: normal → S3
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