97141 - Toolbar prefs not remembered

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: RDF, defect)

Description

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

seen on recent builds of Mac OSX commercial builds

-Open prefs dialogue and select/deselect some apps from the Personal tool bar.

the selections take, but on restart, the selections are back to as before.

this goes the same for email folder headers.

-deselect header titles
on restart the choices are back to default

perhaps this is related to bug # 62110 ??

Comment 1

[Ray]

I too will vouch for this bug having witnessed it through a user who first told
me of it in hopes that I'd resolve it on 8/20/2001.  I went through all possible
diagnostic solutions possible but to no avail as earlier yesterday he posted
that the issue had reoccured.

The bug will not allow him to save his prefs for neither the area above his
toolbar and his news/newsgroups prefs.  Each time he'd save a mail/newsgroup
pref when he'd return it would reset itself as if to have a mind of its own.

While you specified that the bug is only on Mac OS X 10.0.x, I ask that the
notation be edited to the entire Mac platform seeing how this user has mac OS
9.1 and while the bug is on that OS too, anyone with lesser OS versions of the
Mac OS are likely to experience the bug too.

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

when using 2001.08.29.0x-comm bits on either OS X [10.0.4] or 9.1, my toolbar
prefs changes persist btwn sessions.

tracy, could you pls clarify how you changed your mail folder prefs? thx! i'll
check that next.

Comment 3

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

right next to the folder headers (ie subject, date..)  is a little square 
icon...click on it to select/deselect items. The setting is remembered for the 
session...exit the mail app then reopen mail.  The settings you just adjusted 
are back to default. 

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

oh, y'mean selecting the thread pane columns! [heh, terminology confusion. ;)]

well, i tried changing that using today's OS X bits, [in both modern and classic
themes, just for kicks], and it wfm.

resolving as wfm --but if you still see either of problems [ought to be seperate
bugs, as they're different areas], do reopen/file as needed. thx!

Comment 5

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

whoa whao!!  remembering thread pane columns is broken AND so is remebering 
preferences for browser toolbar. (deselect print...restart..print is back) 

I can break this out into mutliple bugs.  Or could someone possibly explain why 
no prefs on this machine are being remembered from session to session.  If so 
I'll reclose this as invalid.

Comment 6

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

ooops...meant to reopen this, not verify.

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

i'm guessing there might be something weird with your machine. ;)

anyhow, if you could file the mail thread pane one as a seperate bug [mailnews:
mail window front-end component], that'd be great.

i can come down to your cube and see what's up, fwiw...it's weird that i cannot
repro this. cc'ing other ppl: zach/olga/nbaca, are you able to repro either of
these problems on mac os x?

Comment 8

[Steve Dagley]

Just a guess but try deleting  the localstore.rdf file from your prefs folder and 
seeing if your prefs changes will then 'stick'.  I've seen the prefs for window 
sizing and sidebar appearance not work until I did this but I haven't 
investigated why yet.

Comment 9

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

we tried both a new profile and removing the profile's localstore.rdf --but to
no avail. very odd!

another difference worth considering: my machine has 10.0.4, but tracy's has a
10.1 preview release. could that be relevant?

-> pink for the nonce.

tracy will be filing a seperate bug in mailnews for the thread pane/folder pane
column issue...however, do let us know if they *are* the same bug!

Comment 10

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

-> pink, really this time. :)

Comment 11

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

not going to have time --> sdagley

Comment 12

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

logged bug 97639 for the mail thread pane column headers (thanks sairuh for 
getting my terminology straight :)

Comment 13

[Steve Dagley]

prefs?  Oh, Brian :-)

Comment 14

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

Steve is most likely correct that this is somehow related to localstore.rdf.
Both the personal tool bar and the mail/news thread pane column information are
stored in localstore.rdf, not using the preferences library.

I'm fairly certain that this and bug 97639 will end up being the same problem.

Unlike Ray's user, I was not able to reproduce this in OS 9.x.

Comment 15

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

Chris, any thoughts on why localstore.rdf might not update correctly? Corrupt
file structure? Bad file I/O? sdagley claims he has some copies of
localstore.rdf which  stopped saving window positions, etc., but I haven't
looked at them.

Comment 16

[Chris Waterson]

There have been reports of bad localstore.rdf files getting written out (see bug
99236 and bug 96221, for example), this could cause some or all of the RDF/XML
to not be parsed properly when we read it back, which would manifest itself as
``forgotten'' settings, etc.

If you can reproduce this, please attach your localstore.rdf to the bug so I can
look for problems.

Comment 17

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

*** Bug 105412 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 108088 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

I have been unable to reproduce this in any way. As the toolbar preferences are
stored in rdf, rather than through the preferences service, I am going to hand
this off to the rdf crew... also downgrading severity as this only seems to be
happening on twalkers machine.

Comment 20

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

Attachment: localstore.rdf for twalkers OSX smoketest machine

I tried to reproduce this on another machine and was not able to.  Is anyone
able to reporduce bug 97639?  it's the same type of behavior except with thread
pane headers.

Comment 21

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

I am unable to reproduce bug 97639.

Comment 22

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

marking this invalid....it turns out the it's a no no to have a "/" in the 
volume name.  It was causing confusion to the os when NS6 was looking for 
certain local files.  Ducarroz championed this one.  Thanks much Jean-Francios!!

Comment 23

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Reopening; breaking when the user has a / in their hard drive name is not 
acceptable.

Comment 24

[Jim Avera]

This is not just windows.  On Linux (where there is no such thing as 
a "hard drive name") the "select buttons you want to see in the toolbars" 
prefs have no effect, either immediately or after resetart.  See bug 108088.
Still broken in build 2002010521.

Comment 25

[benc]

tever is not RDF QA anymore

Comment 26

[Axel Hecht]

waterson left the building

Comment 27

[S Davis]

I am having this problem with firefox forgetting my preferences.  This just started today.  I'm running windows XP home with all update.  Also all my bookmarks disappeared this morning.  I normally shut my computer off everyevening.  This is a first.