Erik Harris wrote:

> BTW, it might be worth noting that "your profile directory" is not located
> within the Mozilla directory structure, which is the intuitive place for
> those of us who have been using PC's for awhile.  I looked around for it for
> a little while before doing a search for these two files on my entire hard
> drive, finding that Mozilla puts its preferences in the Windows profile
> directory, not in its own profile directory.  Specifically, in 2K, it's in
> "C:\Documents and Settings\[profile name]\Application
> Data\Mozilla\Profiles\[profile name]\mbd4cn0z.slt\"
> 
> (Could they have hidden it in a more cryptic directory structure?  What's
> wrong with using "C:\Program Files\Mozilla\Profiles\[profilename]\"?!?)


Re: C:\Documents and Settings\[windows profile name]\Application 
Data\Mozilla\....

According to the OS vendor's[1] preferred method of doing things, that's 
where applications are SUPPOSED to do.  In a properly-configured 
multi-user WinNT[2] environment, you'll see IE and Outlook doing pretty 
much the same thing.  I _think_ things follow a broadly similar pattern 
over on the *ix OS's, and probably on others, too.

[1] yes, they're the "big, bad" microsoft, but that's irrelevent to this 
discussion.
[2] and, I assume, win2K/XP

Re: the "[random].slt" bit, that's security, to prevent a malicious 3rd 
party being able to figure out where your profile lives and do stuff 
with it.

-- 
gav


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