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On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:18:44 -0700 |
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walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I suspect most people don't even know firefox has a ProfileManager, |
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> but I'm here to warn you not to use it. It just cost me years of |
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> bookmarks and saved passwords. |
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> For testing purposes I invoked firefox-bin with the -ProfileManager |
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> flag (don't do this, it's broken!) and created a fresh firefox profile |
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> with the name "temp" as I've been doing for years. |
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> I ran the "temp" profile while doing my testing, quit firefox and then |
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> re-invoked firefox with the -ProfileManager flag and used it to delete |
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> the "temp" profile because I didn't need it any more. |
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> Unfortunately, deleting "temp" also deleted the "default" profile I've |
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> been using for years, which had all of my bookmarks and saved |
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> passwords and maybe other stuff I haven't even thought about yet. |
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I'm sorry you had this trouble, and I can't explain it. |
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I've used the profile manager to delete temporary profiles at least once |
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a twice a week for the past many years without problems. I compile |
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firefox instead of using firefox-bin, but that shouldn't make any |
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difference. |
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I guess you've already looked, but just in case, make sure the |
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default profile directory is really gone. If you're very lucky, only |
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the profile.ini file got corrupted. |
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