HELP!! 1768 copies of the bookmark-file...
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HELP!! 1768 copies of the bookmark-file...
Last 24 hours I've had problems with Firefox crashing. I discovered that I had 1768 copies of the bookmark-file in the mozilla-folder in the application data-folder(all of them created in the last 24 h and the number was increasing)!! Removed them and so far everything looks OK. What happend??
Win XP, Firefox 1.5
Win XP, Firefox 1.5
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Look here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 09#1962109 and http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=255641 . Fx creates a temporary working file while it is saving bookmarks. Sometimes that gets marked as ReadOnly.
Please try to see if you can figure out how it got to be ReadOnly. What were you doing that might have gotten it that way? This is an old bug. Understanding the cause better would help to fix it. Thanks.
Please try to see if you can figure out how it got to be ReadOnly. What were you doing that might have gotten it that way? This is an old bug. Understanding the cause better would help to fix it. Thanks.
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DaddyX wrote:I have three bookmark-files, bookmarks, bookmarks.bak and bookmarks.html.sbsd.bak, none of which is ReadOnly. I also have a bookmarkbackups-folder(why??) containing 5 backups of bookmarks, none of which is ReadOnly. No new copies the last three hours...
"bookmarks.html" is supposed to be the actual bookmarks file, although it can be superceded by "bookmarks-1.html", etc. "bookmarks.html.moztmp" is a temporary working file that ordinarily gets deleted automatically. "bookmarks.bak" is the usual backup file. "bookmarks.html.sbsd.bak" is a Spybot Search and Destroy file.
No copies in the last three hours means that you do not now have a ReadOnly file. That's good news. Problem solved, I think.
There's another hypothetical cause. Perhaps one of the files was being used by another program and therefor locked. Can you check the times of the "bookmarks-1.html" file and remember what you were doing at that time or just before? Whatever you were doing, that's probably what caused it.
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bookmarks-1.html etc... is a Spotlight issue!
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2049087
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2049087
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There are several bug reports, and generally they are a mess, although it is fixed for OS/2. Yea! Do you know if this is well understood and noted in a proper bug report -- one that convers Fx in all OS's?
<b>NOTE: Folks, please do not add comments to bug reports unless you have solid new information to add.</b>
<b>NOTE: Folks, please do not add comments to bug reports unless you have solid new information to add.</b>