User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 When I was a creating a new profile I accidentally pressed a space key. It caused an error: Profile couldn't be created. Probably the chosen folder isn't writable. [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520008 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ALREADY_EXISTS) [nsIToolkitProfileService.createProfile]" nsresult: "0x80520008 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ALREADY_EXISTS)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://mozapps/content/profile/createProfileWizard.js :: onFinish :: line 233" data: no] Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start Sunbird with profile manager 2.Create a new profile clicking 'Create profile...' 3.Enter a name with a space at the end and press finished Expected Results: 1. The space in profile name should be removed and profile created Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061027 Calendar/0.4a1

This seems to me like it belongs in Core:Profile:Backend. Can you reproduce on other Mozilla apps?

Yes- I can confirm this with Thunderbird version 2 beta 1 (20061027)

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061027 Calendar/0.4a1, Firefox and Thunderbird.

I can confirm it also with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

> WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061027 > Calendar/0.4a1, Firefox and Thunderbird. OS depended? I can still reproduce it with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20061227 Calendar/0.4a1

I can reproduce the issue using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021004 Minefield/3.0b4pre and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13pre) Gecko/2008020904 BonEcho/2.0.0.13pre

This is MS Win only problem. MS Win removes trailing spaces on directory/file creation. Similar problem probably occurs too when ending dot('.') on MS Win. See Bug 303729 Comment #2(trailing spaces problem) and Bug 117840(ending '.' problem) on mail folder name. By the way, no problem when ending tilde('~') or starting dot('.')? See Bug 198966(trailing '~') and Bug 229522(starting '.') on mail folder name. These are different issue from above problems on MS Win. Main cause is existence of logic in Mail&News that excludes file with ending '~' or starting '.' from file list on all OS'es, which exists since very old Mozilla Mai&News. I guess it was to avoid "Home directory related issue on Linux" and "Hidden directory/file related issue on Linux". I hope no problem on ending tilde('~') and starting dot('.').

FYI. As written in Bug 229522 Comment #46, profile name of ".DS_Store" at non-default profile location may produce similar problem on Mac OS X.

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.