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?

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.

Max: On which platform(s) do you see this bug ocurring?

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)?

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.

I believe this is working as designed. Way back- 1999- decision was made to 'copy' profile files and not 'move' them.

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.

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.

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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.