From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020326 BuildID: 2002032608 Moved my personal directory in OS X today, and again came up against Mozilla's formidable security, since I was unable to just drag-copy my profile to the new location and have Mozilla recognise it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have a working Mozilla installation, la-de-da 2. Try to move it somewhere else 3. Realise Mozilla can't see the new profile, even though it's named correctly, is in the Library folder, etc. 4. Remove the profile, let Mozilla build a new one, then drag your old Bookmarks, Mail, etc into the new profile, while cursing salted profile folders. 5. Discover that once again Mozilla cannot find the Mail you dragged in. 6. Set up a new mail account with the same name, quit Mozilla, and drag your old mail from the original (but unseen) folders to the new ones Mozilla has just made, then restart. Flip a coin as to whether Mozilla will find your mail this time, but let's just say it does, for brevity's sake. 7. Go back to the mail file and remove the old folders, rename the new folders, removing the -1 that was inserted into their names so that when you use your synchronising software it will find the folders properly. 8. Start Mozilla again, click OKay, Already when it tells you it can't find the Mozilla homepage, then go through every friggin preference in the Preferences and Mail and News Account Settings because if you use the old prefs.js it will go to the old directory and either use a profile it might find there or use the generic one. 9. Go find all of your sidebars, themes, etc. again and redownload...see #8 above. 10. just to be sure that Mozilla is using the correct directory, open a new message, type in something, save it as a draft, and then open the Drafts document in that Profile in a text editor to make sure it's there. 11. While you're going in and out of the Profile admire the stately procession of folders as you wend your way through Library..Mozilla..Profiles...yourprofilename...gibberish.slt...Mail...mail.profile.net...at last you arrive, thirsty and tired but exhilerated by the trip. Actual Results: I drank an entire case of cold medicine mixed with furniture polish in an attempt to end my life. Sadly, mozilla saved my life by pinging because I had an email. Expected Results: Should have had a stinkin preference to change the directory of the Profile directory, which would have made a 10-second job of this. Profile Migration, whatever that is, would not open in any of the 5 versions (mostly recent nightlies) that I have unstuffed right now. I don't know what the problem is with this, but I do know that it's something that comes up reasonably often; people change their computer setup, get a new harddrive and think of a clever new name for it, or have a crash and have to drag in a backup of their Profile. One thing (maybe the only one) that was truly great about Netscape 4 was that it didn't care where the Mail and Bookmarks files came from, it would accomodate them and get on with it. It would be so easy to put a panel in the prefs where one could type in the new path to the directory, make it so it only works with the Master Password if need-be. You could even decorate the bitch with a cute little Browse button, if you were so inclined. Or we could just continue to put razor wire around the reservoir, just in case the commies decide to fluoridate the water.

Browser:Profiles

Enhancement

dupe *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17457 ***

Verified as a dupe of bug 17457