Does Palemoon automatically regenerate the "Local" profile.

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Does Palemoon automatically regenerate the "Local" profile.

Post by alan9182 » 2013-01-01, 11:29

My Installed x32 bit Palemoon Browser has its profile held in
C:\Users\Alan\AppData\Roaming\Moonchild Productions
and
C:\Users\Alan\AppData\Local\Moonchild Productions

If the "Local" branch should be deleted, will Palemoon automatically regenerate without manual intervention and without me even noticing ?
I feel that daily backups of a 65 MB urlclassifier3.sqlite is a waste of time and external HDD backup storage space.

I will continue with frequent backups of the "Roaming" branch to avoid re-installing Add-ons should that branch become deleted.

Regards
Alan

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Re: Does Palemoon automatically regenerate the "Local" profi

Post by Moonchild » 2013-01-01, 11:54

The "local" folder tree will be recreated if deleted.
Be aware that you will have a lot more network traffic if you do this, because you will remove the disk cache in the process, as well as the safebrowsing database - the urlclassifier3.sqlite will be redownloaded when you use Pale Moon after removing it.
If you don't want the urlclassifier3 database, switch off safebrowsing.
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Re: Does Palemoon automatically regenerate the "Local" profi

Post by alan9182 » 2013-01-01, 12:03

Thanks

Will the Disk cache be recreated as well, or will it be disabled until I do something clever with About:Config

Regards
Alan

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