63851 - in a state where we create .slt sub-directory each time we start up

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

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see news://news.mozilla.org/3A3D5A92.1946C919%40benway.com

[e-mail] is in a state where we keep creating .slt directories.

Comment 1

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Attachment: screen shot

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

dr, are you still seeing this?

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

This might happen, if we can write to the profiles dir, but not to the registry.

Comment 4

[Ricardo Kustner]

I had the same problem after trying to restore a backup of my Mail directories
into a new mozilla installation. Whatever I did, mozilla kept creating new salt
subdirectories after I copied the mail data. I think the biggest problem in my
situation was the fact that the prefs.js and other files had *absolute* paths to
all the mailbox related files and in my new installation the directory locations
had changed... After hours of trying to fix this I ended up making a workaround
by creating symlinks from the original mailbox location to newly created salt
dir (I know this is going to be a problem someday).
I've read the complete thread of the bug that initiated the use
salted-directories... I have one suggestion: what about creating *one* place
that holds the name/location of the profile "root" including the salt, instead
of mentioning it in the *complete* absolute path of every reference to files in
there?

Comment 5

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

Agreed. What Ricardo points out - having relative paths instead of absolute
paths in prefs - needs to be fixed. It will solve many problems in addition to
this one.

Comment 6

[Keyser Sose]

Yup I am still seeing this..quite annoying.

Comment 7

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

The real question is why the profile root folder is: C:\Program Files\mozilla\
On Windows, it's supposed to be (Thanks to Ben Bucksch):

+// Windows 2000: C:\Documents and Settings\myosuser\Application
Data\Mozilla\Users50\
+// Windows NT: C:\Winnt\Profiles\myosuser\Application Data\Mozilla\Users50\
+// Windows 95,98
+//   password protection disabled: C:\Windows\Mozilla\Users50\
+//   password protection enabled: C:\Windows\Profiles\myosuser\Application
Data\Mozilla\Users50\

Is there a file "registry.dat" inside the mozilla dir? This file should be
beside "Users50" but I can't tell from the screen shot.

Comment 8

[cmorley]

No, the registry dat is in:
"C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla"

cm

Comment 9

[Keyser Sose]

*** Bug 77797 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 
(you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've 
moved)

Comment 11

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

This is an old bug and I have not heard of this happening since.

Comment 12

[Grace Bush]

agree