Open Bug 921449 Opened 11 years ago Updated 2 years ago

"Reset Firefox" profile backup should preserve attributes/metadata/dates of the files

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86_64
Linux
defect

Tracking

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People

(Reporter: Aleksej, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Whiteboard: [testday-20130927])

2013-09-26-11-20-34-mozilla-central-firefox-27.0a1.es-ES.linux-x86_64

1. Create a new profile (to avoid dataloss).
2. Create a random file (optionally in a random directory) in the profile, and give it a date/time clearly in the past (e.g. last months).
3. Reset Firefox (Help → Restart with add-ons disabled → Restart → Reset Firefox → Reset Firefox).
4. Find the backup of the profile in your desktop directory (under ~/Desktop of the Firefox user on GNU/Linux).  Check the date of the file.

Actual results:
That file, and all other files and directories in the profile backup had their dates reset when the backup was made.

Expected results:
The dates should be preserved.  Since the profile appears to be effectively moved to the backup directory, there seems to be no good reason to lose them?
Version: 25 Branch → Trunk
Severity: normal → S3
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