553012 - [TB 2.0, Vista] Updater starts Thunderbird (first start) as admin

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

From bug 63389 comment 117:
On Vista, The updater is elevated to admin (UAC on) to perform the update.
then Thunderbird is restarted.. with admin priviledges!! so the profiles go in
%appdata%Local   instead of %appdata%Roaming. I closed thunderbird, then restarted manually, and boom .. the old profile was there.

That means Thunderbird, on first start, doesn't find the old profiles?

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

(note: this is filed based on a report from a user. I cannot confirm this myself. somebody please test it out.)

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> From bug 63389 comment 117:
> On Vista, The updater is elevated to admin (UAC on) to perform the update.
> then Thunderbird is restarted.. with admin priviledges!! so the profiles go in
> %appdata%Local   instead of %appdata%Roaming. I closed thunderbird, then
> restarted manually, and boom .. the old profile was there.
> 
> That means Thunderbird, on first start, doesn't find the old profiles?

Pinnw: which version of Thunderbird are you using? If its Thunderbird 2, then this could be an issue, but afaict this should work correctly in Thunderbird 3.

Comment 3

[Pinnw Mpires]

yes, on first start, doesn't find the old profiles.
yes, I am using ver 2.0

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Pinnw Mpires was the original reporter, so changing version and summary to 2.0.

Given that 2.0 is pretty much dead, this may be WONTFIX, although it's serious.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Ben Bucksch (:BenB) from comment #4)
> Given that 2.0 is pretty much dead, this may be WONTFIX, although it's
> serious.

Comment 6

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

wsmwk), can you please test that TB 8.0 doesn't exhibit this behaviour?