321566 - Many copies of bookmarks.html in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/ecc.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 294584

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Eugenio MORASSI]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; it; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; it; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Every time you quits Firefox a copy of bookmarks.html is made in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/ecc.

If you don't pay attention to that and manually remove these copie which name is bookmarks-n.html (n is a Natural as 1, 2, ..., n) your Firefox folder will explode  (mine is now containing 189 copies for 97 MBytes from last manual removal 30 days ago).

This is not happening if you use an EMPTY bookmarks.html file (eg. the default one) and will happen with a normal bookmark (CMD-D) use.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Delete bookmarks.html in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/ecc.
2. Make some new ones (with CMD-D or via Menu choice)
3. Quit Firefox


Actual Results:  
This will happen

Expected Results:  
Only ONE bookmarks.html in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/ecc. is expected except a .bak

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

If you're running 10.4 then it's probably bug 294584, if not then it's usually bookmarks.html or bookmarks.html.moztemp or both being set read-only.

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

Bug 157152 is the other bug referred in comment 1

Comment 3

[Jean-Pierre Melkonian]

confirmed on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

i have also a "bookmarkbackups" folder
Never cleaned ?

Comment 4

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Josh: can we just dupe this off with bug 294584?

Comment 5

[Josh Aas]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 294584 ***