I just pulled and built, and after running the new profile manager, apprunner is not finding my prefs50.js file. it appears to be trying to find it here /u/sspitzer/sspitzer/prefs50.js The profile that I created was "sspitzer". I'd expect that it would look for it here: /u/sspitzer/.mozilla/sspitzer/prefs50.js Other interesting things to note: apprunner tried to open /u/sspitzer/.mozilla/cookperm and /u/sspitzer/.mozilla/cookies, which seems incorrect. open("/u/sspitzer/sspitzer/prefs50.js", O_RDONLY) = 5 open("/u/sspitzer/.mozilla/cookperm", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/u/sspitzer/.mozilla/cookies", O_RDONLY) = 7 A quick and dirty way to find out what files apprunner is trying to open on Linux is: $ strace apprunner |& grep open -Seth

marking p1, m6.

Bhuvan, please take a look at this if Gayatri is still out sick.

Assigning this to myself.

Assigning this to myself.

I've got the fix for UNIX. It is low risk, and I'll check it in as soon as the tree opens. From then on, UNIX will look like the other platforms, and this should help keep platform parity bugs down. For example The default account: ~/.mozilla/Users50/Default The sspitzer profile that I created: ~/.mozilla/Users50/sspitzer As soon as I check it in, I'll send mail to the right aliases and newsgroups explaining where to put your prefs50.js file on UNIX. Note to racham and gayatrib: you need to test your code and verify that everything works on UNIX before you check in. alecf has some suggestions about the *right* way to do profile directories on UNIX, and he's going to call a meeting.

the fix is in. If the profile manager is turned off, it will look for your prefs50.js file here: ~/.mozilla/Users50/Default/prefs50.js If you're one of those adrenaline junkies and you've turned the profile manager on, it will create you profille here: ~/.mozilla/Users50/<profile name> and look for your prefs here: ~/.mozilla/Users50/<profile name>/prefs50.js

Updating QA Contact.

Reopening the bug to make some adjustments. As per the meeting we had on Monday, we need to have ~/.mozilla/default for default profile and all other profiles under ~/.mozilla (i.e., ~/.mozilla/<profileName>). I will assign this bug to myself.

Reassigning the bug to myself.

racham: this bug is fixed. are you planning to fix something else under this bug?

On Windows and Macintosh, that is "Default", not "default". Programmers like lower case, but this is something that end-users will see.

Added code to direct prefs to look at the right location for prefs50.js on all platforms.

has the location changed on any of the platforms?

Here are the locations to find prefs file on various platforms; Linux : ~/.mozilla/Default (for default profile) ~/.mozilla/<profile name> (for other profiles) Mac : :Documents:Mozilla:Users50:Default (for default profile) :Documents:Mozilla:Users50:<profile name> (for other profiles) Windows : dist/Users50/Default (for default profile) dist/Users50/<profile name> (for other profiles)

*Related issue on Windows* Using today's Windows build (1999-05-19-10-M6), my new profile got created in: C:\Program Files\Netscape\Seamonkey\[new profile name] instead of: C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users50\[new profile name] I did not attempt to alter the default path for the profile during profile creation.

Please announce this, because this is a major change to the way the product functions! You can't just leave users wondering why all their preferences are gone and why the entire messenger product doesn't work anymore. Places to announce: netscape.public.mozilla.general netscape.public.mozilla.prefs netscape.public.mozilla.xpfe newsbot@mozilla.org (see http://www.mozilla.org/newsbot/ for an explanation)

oh, and maybe netscape.public.mozilla.builds too, depending on relevance to doing a build.

I actually got 2 profile folders created under the existing C:\Users50 with today's build on Windows. I didn't see any new folder created under C:\Program Files\Netscape directory. So this new profile creation works only if there is no existing User50 directory? Because of this problem, I have not been able to see any mail folders that I have today. I just see an icon called "Accounts" and nothing happens when I tried to open it.

So, is there a bug here? Does this bug need to be reopened or manifested into another bug report? Do we need to release note something?

The real problem for me is that I don't see any Mail folders I have for my Deafult profile. I specified a Mail folder location not under the Prodile_name/Mail folder but somewhere else on the same hard drive. Since there was a new profile created under Users50 directory. I also copied all the Mailbox files from my Mail directory into the Mail folder under User50\New_profile\Mail. This did not work. I just don't see anything other than "Accounts" icon in the Window. In yesterday's build, I see all the message folders and messages within them. As far as I can see, there is no way I can do any Mail test unless this is resolved.

I finally got my Mail folders to show. I had to copy my prefs50.js file from where it was before into a profile directory which I had no choice but to create when I started the 5/19 build. However, I did copy the original prefs50,js file this mornig at least a couple of times into this new directory but at that time it did not work. This evening, for some reason, it started working when I copied the original prefs50.js file yet another time into the new directory.

Following are the locations of the preferences files on various platforms. Of the 3 platforms mentioned below, what actually changed is Linux. Windows and Mac remained the same. Linux : for profile 'default' : ~/.mozilla/Default for user created <profile name> : ~/.mozilla/<profile name> The root directory for profile info storage used to be ~/.mozilla/Users50/ and is now changed to ~/.mozilla as shown above. Mac : for profile 'default' : :Documents:Mozilla:Users50:Default for user created <profile name> : :Documents:Mozilla:Users50:<profile name> Windows : for profile 'default' : <3 levels up from the exe location>\Users50\Default for user created <profile name> : <3 levels up from the exe location>\Users50\<profile name> In any case the most important thing is make sure you delete mozregistry.dat on windows ( c:\winnt or c:\windows or equivalent), Mozilla Registry on Mac (System Folder:Preferences), registry on Linux (~/.mozilla/) before you install/build and run the new executable. It might cause inconsistencies otherwise. Bhuvan.

This last bit of information is good for release notes. Can you forward your information to verah? Thanks.

verified the prefs50.js file is located as indicated, and that the info has been forwarded to verah