J B wrote: > On starting up Mozilla, it appears that Mozilla can't find my user account's > profile folder. What currently happens, and has had to happen since I've > been using this Win2K desktop is I have to 'create' a new profile in my > profile's folder everytime I start up. This has problems in that > occasionally my whole Mozilla profile gets reset to the default setting... > now, this is a real pain in the royal arse, if u get what i mean, as I have > to tell Profile mgr to create a profile in a certain folder and then > start-up.... [and as moz crashes due to it pre-release nature, this means > i'd rather use IE as my browser... ] > > the release notes state: > http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.9.7/#setprefs ] > > "Your profile directory is located at: > %WINDOWS%\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\<profilename>\xxxxxxxx.slt\ on > Windows " > > Now, the WINDOWS env variable wasn't set on this machine, so i set it > uniformly.. but that doesn't work. Maybe the documentation is out of step. > My profile folder is set to Roam and Synchronise with a server.... and I > have heard that on encrypted NTFS drives, the profile mgr cant find the > user's profile either. > > What I'm looking for is either: > 1- a fix I can implement myself [ie. how does Moz attempt to find the user's > profile folder, and error log to see if maybe permissions aren't set etc..] > 2- a bug number [as if there isn't one, there should be] > > Any help? I have requested before.. but maybe this problem is a little > obscure.... but is certainly a problem with running Moz in this Corporate > Environment... > > Tanks > > Jon
This must be similar to WinXP woes.And,the problem is that XP hides such files.After getting into View/etc.you can find that there is an Application Data folder after all. The Release Notes do not mention this little problem.I have no idea why the profiles are in Windows,anyway.
