40940 - Having file url in bookmarks destroys directories after migration

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

Description

[Jason Kersey]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.73 [en] (WinNT; I)
BuildID:    2000052815

I currently have my desktop bookmarked in 4.7.  After migrating, it used to be 
that instead of it being just a normal bookmark, it would actually expand to 
show all the files on the desktop.  Now, not only does it not work, it causes 
all the other folders in that folder to become disfunctional.  For instance:

Current Bookmarks - 

4.7 Example - - - -
*Desktop
*Bookmark
*Bookmark
>Folder
>Folder
>Folder
>Folder

Old Mozilla Example - - - -
>Desktop
*Bookmark
*Bookmark
>Folder
>Folder
>Folder
>Folder

New Mozilla Example- - - -
Desktop
Bookmark
Bookmark
Folder
Folder
Folder
Folder

This may be confusing, so let me explain it.  In 4.x, the desktop book mark is 
just that, a bookmark to a system directory.  In older mozilla builds, that 
bookmark became a folder which held the contents of the desktop.  In new mozilla 
builds, any bookmarks or folders that are in the same folder as a bookmark to a 
system folder bookmark become broken, and do nothing when clicked on.  The 
folders in the folder appear to become bookmarks that don't work.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.bookmark a system folder in 4.x
2.migrate your profile to mozilla
3.go to the folder that the bookmark is in
4.see that all folders and bookmarks appear to be broken

Actual Results:  After bookmarking a folder and migrating, it renders all 
folders and bookmarks unusable

Expected Results:  The folder bookmark should either expand into showing the 
contents of that folder (old mozilla style) or just link to the folder and go to 
it when clicked (4.7).  I loved the way older mozilla builds did it, and would 
love to see that return.

Bookmark a folder freshly in Mozilla without migration seems to work fine.

Comment 1

[dbragg]

The migration code just copies the old bookmarks.htm to the new profile 
directory.  The browser itself reads the old bookmarks file and does any 
required conversions.  Reassigning to slamm.

Comment 2

[Grace Bush]

changing component/ QA contact

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning 79 Bookmarks bugs to Ben.  I was told this was going to be done 
shortly about two months ago, but it clearly hasn't been.  I think that's long 
enough for all these bugs to remain assigned to nobody.

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Comment 4

[Marcia Knous [:marcia - needinfo? me]]

Netscape Nav triage team: this is not a Netscape beta stopper. adding helpwanted 
to the keywords

Comment 5

[Paul Chen]

Marking nsbeta1- bugs as future to get off the radar.

Comment 6

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

I believe this has been fixed. 

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying claudius' Fixed bugs which haven't changed since 2001.12.31.

if you think this particular bug is not fixed, please make sure of the following
before reopening:

a. retest with a *recent* trunk build.
b. query bugzilla to see if there's an existing, open bug (new, reopened,
assigned) that covers your issue.
c. if this does need to be reopened, make sure there are specific steps to
reproduce (unless already provided and up-to-date).

thanks!

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