>What happens when users do that? Because they do. > >A variety of kinda-horrible things will happen. > >The two copied profiles will compete for the Sync client record. That means >sent tabs will appear on one or the other, the Tabs from Other Devices list >will flip-flop between each of the two devices, the count of devices will >be wrong for scheduling purposes, and the two devices will unpredictably >handle bookmark repair requests, leading to distributed inconsistency.
Ouch. Glad when I copied profiles I didn't (and still don't) use Sync; having this happen would be ... surprising - and painful, sounds like. I wonder if it's possible to flag moved (or copied) profiles, and force them to go through some sort of re-sync (effectively become a "new" client for the account, even if it was only moved to a new disk location). That *should* in theory avoid the consistency problem, and only annoy users without reason in the odd case where the moved their profile(s). -- Randell Jesup, Mozilla Corp remove "news" for personal email _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
