295803 - Cache-folder is moved/renamed - make it difficult to exclude it in backup software

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

My cache-folder in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox etc are renamed/moved
and then recreated on a regular basis. Since I use Mac OS X's colour markings
for excluding files and folders from being backed up the recreation of a folder
(without a colour marking) makes me backup unnecessary files.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
A new cache-folder is created with the old folder called Cache.Trash

Expected Results:  
Leave the cache-folder "as is", or even better, store its cache in herefore
dedicated directory in ~/Library/Caches.

There is no need for profiles in Mac OS X, remove them.

The combinatione of not using the recommended directory for caches, using
profiles (which is unnecessary) and unasked renaming/recreating directories
makes this, IMO, a major bug.

Comment 1

[Bruce Davidson]

This has already been addressed on the trunk (i.e. what will become Firefox 1.1)
in bug 291033. The caches have been moved to ~/Library/Caches. I think we still
mess around with Cache and Cache.trash in there, but I'm taking it that won't be
a problem because your backup routine presumably ignores ~/Library/Caches. 

Marking as WFM.