Closed
Bug 92295
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
Initial profile conversion also make private copy of existing mail hierarchy
Categories
(Core Graveyard :: Profile: Migration, enhancement)
Core Graveyard
Profile: Migration
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
INCOMPLETE
Future
People
(Reporter: gsingleton, Unassigned)
Details
Starting mozilla0.92 with no exisiting profile results in mozilla creating
a private copy of ALL exisiting mail files and related directories. This
behaviour caused my $HOME to completely fill. Can this behaviour be made
conditional or better present a dialogue to the user asking what is required?
Updated•24 years ago
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Comment 1•22 years ago
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Doesn't this apply to all platforms?
An option to move (rather than copy) the mail to the new profile is essential.
Otherwise, you have to manually delete the old mail, which is prohibitive when
doing large numbers of upgrades.
Comment 2•22 years ago
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Max: On which platform(s) do you see this bug ocurring?
Comment 3•22 years ago
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In what subdirectory is this copy of the mail store being made?
Is this still a bug in the latest version of Mozilla (1.2 beta)?
Summary: Initial profile conversion also make private copy of existing mail heirarchy → Initial profile conversion also make private copy of existing mail hierarchy
Comment 4•22 years ago
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I have seen this bug occur on Windows NT, 2000, and XP. To verify it again,
I've just done the following:
- Using a Win2000 machine, with Netscape 4 installed as default mail/browser
program. Machine has never had any Mozilla-based browser installed. N4 is
setup to store its profile on a network drive, u:\netscape, and to check a pop3
mail server called mailin. u:\netscape\mail contains the following:
Drafts, Drafts.snm, Inbox, Inbox.snm, popstate.dat, rules.dat, Sent, Sent.snm,
Templates, Templates.snm, Test, Test.snm, Trash, Trash.snm, Unsent Messages,
Unsent Messages.snm
- Installed Mozilla 2002110610 with browser and mail components on machine and
allowed it to convert my default N4 profile.
- Mozilla created new profile in c:\documents and settings\username\Application
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\1asd2fg3.slt. In this folder, it created
Mail\mailin\ and put the following files in here:
Drafts, Inbox, popstate.dat, rules.dat, Sent, Templates, Test, Trash, Unsent
Messages
Each of the above files is a copy of the files from u:\netscape\mail, and N4
mail files were left in place.
Comment 5•22 years ago
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I believe this is working as designed. Way back- 1999- decision was made to
'copy' profile files and not 'move' them.
Comment 6•22 years ago
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Copying the profile is all very well. However, the mail stored within a profile
can be very large (several hundred megabytes for some users). This means that a
Mozilla upgrade requires the disk space taken up by the Mozilla files, PLUS that
of all the users mail. This is unacceptable in a network environment. There
needs to be an option to move, rather than copy the mail.
Comment 7•22 years ago
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All/all as per comment 4.
The current functionality does work. Nevertheless, the option of moving files is
an important need. That makes this an enhancement request.
Target milestone is Mozilla 1.0.1, needs updating.
Comment 11•18 years ago
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sorry for the spam. making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs. filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.
Assignee: sspitzer → nobody
Updated•15 years ago
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QA Contact: agracebush → profile-migration
Blocks: 1243899
Comment 13•9 years ago
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This bug is filed in a bugzilla component related to pre-Firefox code which no longer exists. I believe it is no longer relevant and I am therefore closing it INCOMPLETE.
If you believe that this bug is still valid and needs to be fixed, please reopen it and move it to the Toolkit:Startup and Profile System product/component.
Assignee | ||
Updated•9 years ago
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Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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