There have been requests for bookmarks to be located somewhere else, but since history and bookmarks are intertwined, it's not as easy as it was a long time ago.
And you're right, the downside to pointing to one directory for everything is that roaming and local are combined. I don't know of a way around this. Mike On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 4:57 PM, Daniel Frey <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/03/18 13:04, Stephen Dowdy wrote: > > FWIW, on Linux, i do: > > > > firefox -CreateProfile "${ff_prof_name}" -new-instance -no-remote > > > > to create a new profile programmatically. Of course, this defaults to > > creating it in the HOME directory hierarchy, but you could subsequently > > move that and symlink to the new location, or modify profile.ini with > > non-relative pathing. > > > > I resolved the issue creating the folder, it's not an issue there. > > The problem is when using profiles.ini on Windows it moves *everything* > over to the destination. Prior it would have the cache in the > user/appdata/local dir and other bits with the bookmarks in > user/appdata/roaming. After using profile.ini it relocates everything > including the cache as I found out in small scale testing. > > As an organization we do not need to backup all of the profile, the only > thing we need are the bookmarks file instead of terabytes of data in the > rest of the profile. > > Windows does have ability to redirect the entire appdata/roaming > directory but the other data really have no need to be on the file server. > > Surely our organization isn't the only one that wants to redirect > bookmarks only? > > I am wondering if my original idea of a symlink is better, as I could > redirect the appdata/roaming/Mozilla directory without moving all the > rest of the information as well. > > Has there been a feature request to be able to redirect bookmarks only > for the ESR versions? > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > Enterprise mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/ > listinfo/enterprise or send an email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe" >
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