Re: Netscape blows away preferences.js file when disk is full
Quoting Bob Horvath (bob@horvath.com):
> I am seeing a recurring problem that is quite annoying. My disk
> space is at a premium. If I am doing something and the disk
> fills, I first get a "Error saving bookmarks" error. Netscape
> doesn't crash, but upon stopping it and restarting it, all of the
> preferences are gone. The preferences.js file is blown away to
> have a length of zero. I have to go in and reconfigure all of the
> mail and news servers, as well as any other preferences in there.
>
> Anyone else seen this? How would I report this to Netscape?
No idea. But if it's recurring and annoying, run netscape from a
bash function which saves a copy of your preferences first.
Cheers,
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