ehar$is1@$ocheste$.r$.com (Erik Harris) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 

>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\" 

Every multi-user OS must have the capability for different users
(i.e., different login names) to store settings independently for
each of the users. Even in Win9x, if you have your system set up to
use independent settings for each different username, you will get
a Profiles folder under your Windows folder where settings for the
different login names will be stored. 

When there are no profiles (on Win9x), Mozilla creates a folder
under Windows for the user settings, including your cache, cookies,
plugins, etc. 

I hate this, of course, since I want absolutely no application data
on my OS volume. I keep my C: drive for Windows, hardware support
and my swap file. IE allows me to set the location of my browser
cache, and this is the one thing I would like to be able to do (I'd
put it in my %TEMP% folder, which is on the 20GB volume, instead of
the 1GB volume where Windows is installed!). 

It would be nice to be able to manually assign the location of the
temporary files, simply because they take up a helluva lot of room
and there may be limited space on the OS volume. 

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
dfenton at bway dot net                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc 

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