Closed Bug 259266 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Out-of-place location of the profiles.ini file

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 247973

People

(Reporter: ccruzdal, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 As opposed to Firefox, Thunderbird does not store its profile.ini (and related files) in \Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Mozilla\Thunderbird but rather in \Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Thunderbird Firefox handled this similarly, but this behavior was changed, I suppose with Firefox 0.8. Shouldn't this be changed for cross-application consistency? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Expected Results: The profiles.ini file should reside in \Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Mozilla\Thunderbird.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247973 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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