Closed Bug 275396 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Installer deleted contents of drive.

Categories

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 233625

People

(Reporter: a_user, Assigned: bugs)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 

Upon un-installing Firefox 0.9 after upgrading to 1.0, at the end of the 
process the installer reported "Unable to locate X:\ [blank]. Would you like 
to delete this directory?" and I said OK, and it deleted the entire contents 
of the drive!

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install 0.9
2.Install 1.0
3.Uninstall 0.9

Actual Results:  
The Installer said it couldn't locate an unidentified file and asked to delete
the folder, where upon it emptied the drive of all files and folders.

Expected Results:  
It should not have deleted the contents of my drive.
Please search for duplicates before filing bugs.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233625 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
(In reply to comment #1)
> Please search for duplicates before filing bugs.
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233625 ***

Sure - no problem! Not going to 'bug' you anymore! I looked for "Installer" 
and the duplicate subject is under the subject uninstaller. I will not ever 
again use any thing produced under the FireFox/Mozilla name, so you won't have 
to worry about "duplicates!"
QA Contact: bugzilla → installer
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