534108 - 3.0 creates a "documents and settings" folder instead of using "users"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[ebirnie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0

i have been using thunderbird fine for months and the settings are all stored in the c:/users/.. folder structure that is proper in windows 7. after installing thunderbird 3 it created a "documents and settings" folder scheme where its keeping the smart folders. i cannot find the smart folder settings within the program to remedy this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. installed thunderbird 3
2. chose to use smart folders
3.
Actual Results:  
a c:/documents and settings/ folder structure was created, that i do not wish.

Expected Results:  
i would expect the settings to be saved in the normal windows 7 c:/users/ folders

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Do you use Tb's prefs.js ported from Win-Vista or Win-XP?
Is there any prefs.js entry which has c:\documents and settings\ or c:\\documents and settings\\ in value?
What is set in environment variable APPDATA?
  At command prompt, ECHO %APPDATA%
What directries/files are created in c:\documents and settings?
  At command prompt:
  C:
  CD "c:\documents and settings"
  DIR /S > C:\DIR-LIST.TXT
  notepad.exe C:\DIR-LIST.TXT
  (change C:\DIR-LIST.TXT to appropriate one such as C:\WORK\DIR-LIST.TXT)

Comment 2

[ebirnie]

i did move over my settings from a windows xp install. i just manually edited all of the instances of the wrong paths in the prefs.js file and its working fine now. thank you for the help.