Overview Description: I deleted my mozprofile directory without deleting mozregistry.dat. Every subsequent launch of apprunner runs with default prefs only. You should be kicked into the Create Profile Wizard (like 4.x) or a default profile directory should be created dynamically. Steps to Reproduce: 1) Launch apprunner on a clean system. 2) Create profile in default directory and run apprunner once. 3) Shutdown apprunner and delete Users50 directory. 4) Launch apprunner again. Actual Results: Browser ran fine, but no user profile was created dynamically, thus no prefs, bookmarks, etc., were ever saved. Expected Results: Should be kicked into Create Profile Wizard (or profile should be created dynamically). Build Date & Platform Bug Found: Windows95 7/9 build. Additional Builds and Platforms Tested On: No other platforms tested yet (at home).

Bhuvan, we should definitely notice this and at least re-create the directory structure from the Defaults folder. We should check with UE to see if it's necessary to put up a warning or something in this case.

I agree. We should create the whole directory structure with the all Defaults folder contents copied into the location. As the registry is not deleted, we can always get the intended profile directory location for that profile and recreate all required directories.

Under this error condition, 4.x simply kicks you into the Create Profile Wizard with a little warning "could not find Profile Direcory" or something.

*** Bug 10501 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Bug 7456 already talks about the requirement to have a check for the profile directory existence and prompt user to do the right thing, in case of inconsistencies. Marking this duplicate of Bug 7456. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7456 ***

Moving all Profile Manager bugs to new Profile Manager Backend component. Profile Manager component to be deleted.