302841 - Automatically remove/unset 'browser.cache.disk.parent_directory' preference if it is set to old default (main profile) location

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: Startup & Profiles, defect)

Description

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050729 SeaMonkey/1.0a]
(nightly) (W98SE)

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I read

Bugzilla Bug 74085
          [Win] Disk cache should use local directory (CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA)
Bugzilla Bug 291033
          Enable support for profile temp directory on local filesystem
Bugzilla Bug 292075
          improve seamonkey's local profile support

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I noticed, for my two existing profiles, that,
recent MAS/SM builds "move" my XUL.mfl file to <X:\WINDOWS\Mozilla\Profiles\*>
but the "Cache" directory remains in <X:\WINDOWS\Application
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\*> (only) :-|
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ChristianB's answer
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You probably have the cache pref set, check in about:config (the preferences
dialog until very recently automatically set it).

mcsmurf filed a bug to automatically remove that pref if it is set to the
default location (or so I hope :-)).
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FrankW's answer
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No i didn't file it, feel free to file that bug so.
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I had indeed
{{
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.parent_directory", "X:\\WINDOWS\\Application
Data\\Mozilla\\Profiles\\SergeG_M13\\p0lj4ssh.slt");
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I removed this default pref+value, then (re)started SM,
and it fixed this bug.

I surmise that this bug should depend/block one of the 3 above,
but I'm not sure which one...

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

This has been filed with a version of SeaMonkey that has been EOLed for quite some time, and there are no further comments if this still might apply to 2.x - please reopen if it still does.