Closed Bug 537590 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Forward-as pref is not preserved

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Migration
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: hendrik, Unassigned)

Details

I used to have TB set to foward messages as attachment. After the migration to 3.0, I had to re-set this preference (on all of several PCs where the migration took place). The pref should be taken over from the 2.x settings.
That's a general issue with preferences for which the default changed between versions. If you used "as attachment", that was the default in 2.0, which was changed to "inline" as the more practical choice for most users. Unless a user_pref is defined overriding the default on profile migration, the new default is adopted. Changing this behavior to retain the prior-version default was won't-fixed in bug 489668. Your bug is a special case of that.
Though as I commented in bug 489668, I think the migration assistant should have warned for this.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
The problem being that the migration manager was covering only the most visible changes, thus the question is which prefs are considered "significant" enough to be represented during the migration. You don't want to make the assistant itself overwhelm the user by covering too many issues...
Then how about a dialog that says ‘Some default preferences have been changed since the last version. Do you want to take over the new default preferences or keep your old preferences?’ and of course acts as desired.
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