408512 - New Eudora install modifies existing Thunderbird options without warning.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Penelope Graveyard :: Installer, defect)

Description

[denis.laplante]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Eudora 8.0.0b2 (Eudora 3.0a1pre in Finder Info; Eudora-8.0.0b2.en-US.mac.dmg)

I installed Eudora 8.0.0b2 on my Mac (drag to /Applications) and it opened my existing Thunderbird Profile (I expected to get a blank profile and need to import)
Unfortunately I had not made a recent backup of my Profile ,
and Eudora killed the spell checker,
and the icons for listing columns "Status" and "Priority".
I actually prefer the strings like "Read" and "Replied" to the ambiguous icons, but now I'm wondering what else got messed up.


Reproducible: Didn't try

Actual Results:  
Eudora used and deleteriously modified Thunderbird default Profile settings.

Expected Results:  
New install of Eudora should ask whether to use existing or new Profile.

Comment 1

[Matt Dudziak]

I'm afraid this might be a 'too bad', but I'll leave this bug open to see how many votes it gets.

Matt

Comment 2

[Michael A. Pasek]

I'd have to agree that installing a newer version "should ask whether to use existing or new Profile".  Certainly, it should NOT overwrite settings without consulting the user if a profile IS found....

Comment 3

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Penelope didn't see any activity in the vcs for the last 8 years, closing.