On 6/13/12 1:15 PM, Ray_Net wrote: > David E. Ross wrote, On 13/06/2012 17:06: >> On 6/12/12 10:22 AM, Bob Fleischer wrote: >>> With the latest versions of Firefox and SeaMonkey, I note that my >>> profiles have new folders names "minidumps" each containing some files. >>> >>> What are these? >>> >>> Bob >>> >> I see the folders in all four of my profiles, but they are all empty. >> > Just before my folder began to have files - the first one is dated > 10/06/2012 11:23 > > Could this caused by this windows update ? > > Update for Windows 7 (KB2718704) > Installation date: 09/06/2012 22:41 > Installation status: Successful > Update type: Important > Install this update to resolve an issue which requires an update to the > certificate revocation list on Windows systems and to keep your systems > certificate list up to date. After you install this update, you may have > to restart your system. > More information: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2718704 > >
Okay. I dusted off my software test engineer hat -- which I put aside 9 years ago when I retired -- and did some investigating. On my PC, the minidumps folders were created in my four SeaMonkey profiles on 24 November 2011. I installed the Windows XP KB2718704 fix on 4 June 2012, more than six months later. Thus, I do not think minidumps has anything to do with the KB2718704 fix for any Windows version. The minidumps folder first appeared in my Thunderbird profile with TBird 3.0, which I installed on 10 December 2010. However, the folder now has a creation date of 28 September 2011, which is when I installed TBird 7.0. I'm now at TBird 13.0. I installed SeaMonkey 2.0.11 on 11 December 2010 (the day after TBird 3.0), but minidumps does not appear in my installation log for that date. I installed SM 2.5 on 23 November 2011, the day before the current creation date for the folder in my SM profiles. I'm now at SM 2.10. I can't find any installation log for any software for 24 November 2011. However, my logging sometimes fails, leaving me without any log. My current software inventory also shows no installation done on that date. My inventory only shows the most recent installation of a software version, not a history. Thus, an installation on 24 November 2011 would be replaced in my inventory if I then install a later version of the same software. I just now deleted folder minidumps from my "guest" profile (not my primary profile). I then switched to that profile. When I switched back to my primary profile, the folder reappeared in my "guest" profile. Thus, this folder appears to be a Mozilla artifact. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
