294493 - all profiles' folder are deleted when deleting a single profile in the profile manager

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[frederico pflug]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0.2 (20050317)

I had two profiles not stored in the standard thunderbird folder, but in a
different partition.
i had something like:
d:\mozillamail\thunderbird\profile A\
d:\mozillamail\thunderbird\profile B\

i selected to delete the profile B taking 'delete files', but the whole folder
'thunderbird' was deleted including the 'profile A', remaining only the folder
d:\mozillamail\

i will try to reproduce at home and post the results.


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create two profiles under the same folder
2. setup email for both
3. delete one of the profiles using the option 'delete files'


Actual Results:  
the main folder where the two profiles' files were, gets deleted.
the deleted profile disappear and the other one remains, but cannot be opened.
the error message is that the profile is in use.

Expected Results:  
the main folder should not be deleted. only the folder containing the
information of the delete profile should be deleted.

Comment 1

[frederico pflug]

i have found out that when creating a new profile and selecting a directory,
thunderbird does not create a subfolder with the profile's name, so when the
second profile is created and the same directory is selected, then it overwrites
all files.

procedure would be:
1. create profile a, selecting the directory d:\mozillamail\thunderbird\
2. setup email, etc.
3. create profile b, selecting the same folder.
4. setup email ==>> here is were the files are overwritten.

would be nice if it would do the same as the mozilla suite, meaning, under
d:\mozillamail\thunderbird\, the profile manager should create the subfolder
with the profile name, that following the example would be:
d:\mozillamail\thunderbird\profile a\
d:\mozillamail\thunderbird\profile b\

tks.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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