308523 - Profile Manager deletes not only the selected profile but a lot more!

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 273729

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[urban]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux) KHTML/3.4.0 (like Gecko)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0

See 294493; this is probably the same thing.  
 
I created a new profile in the folter ~/desktop using /start/programs/thunderbird/profile manager. 
when i realized, that no subfolder is created i clicked on remove that profile, after the process 
terminated. The profile manager deleted all newly creared folders and files + all text files on my 
desktop + 90% of the existing folders whitch had nothing todo with thunderbird.  
 
i lost lots of data. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  create a new profile using the profile manager in an not emty folder. 
2.  create some subfolders and textfiles 
3.  delete the profile using profile manager. 
  
Actual Results:  
most of the additional files were deleted. 

Expected Results:  
only the files created by TB should have been deleted.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

(In reply to comment #0)
> See 294493; this is probably the same thing.  

Also related to/duplicate of Core bug 273729 and Firefox bug 302087?

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

There really should be some sanity check to make sure the profile isn't created
in places like ~/desktop (with no subfolder)... However, bug 18927 might be
really useful for the other cases.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 273729 ***