Corrupted/deleted Profile after Crash
Posted: 2017-04-27, 03:53
Hello all!
As I would guess others here are, I am still happily using Pale Moon 26.5 on my PC running Windows XP.
Today, as is not uncommon, my ThinkPad developed heatstroke, overheated to 95℃, and "froze" in its tracks so I had to force shut it down and restart. After restarting, I started up Mozilla Firefox (which I use for social media due to its advanced abilities such as playing videos on the Web) and a while later started up Pale Moon. I was greeted with this message: "Your Pale Moon profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible."
I cannot open Pale Moon, even with the Profile Manager tags "palemoon.exe -ProfileManager", -p, -P, etc.
I then open my %APPDATA% folder.
I see the folder for Moonchild Producations, but when I click on it, a dialog box pops up, telling me "<Folder Name> is not accessible. Access is denied."
When I open the folder's properties, it says the folder is marked "Read Only", as many of the other folders seem to be, and contains 0 bytes, 0 files, and 0 folders.
I'm very confused, as my ThinkPad crashes all the time, and nothing like this has ever happened, and I can understand folder corruption, but the entire contents of it seem to be gone!
Please let me know if you have any ideas.
Thanks!!
Edit:
I think it may have something to do with this bug.
I now recall that I changed privileges last time and it needed to restart to instate them which happened when I restarted.
It seems that I have been running my user account with Administrator privileges for all these years which I have heard is not a smart idea. I went to the Windows NT User Control Applet (Run "control userpasswords2") and demoted my regular everyday user account to "Power User" privileges.
I right-clicked on palemoon.exe to Run As...Administor.
After that it opened without issue to the wizard that asks you if you want to import settings from Internet Explorer and acted like I was opening Pale Moon for the first time.
My profile folder is still inaccessible and apparently empty though, so that is an issue!
A number of other folders within the %APPDATA% directory display the same behaviour.
It makes me almost want to run as Administrator all the time again, but again, let me know the best practices, or at least how you operate!
Thanks again!
As I would guess others here are, I am still happily using Pale Moon 26.5 on my PC running Windows XP.
Today, as is not uncommon, my ThinkPad developed heatstroke, overheated to 95℃, and "froze" in its tracks so I had to force shut it down and restart. After restarting, I started up Mozilla Firefox (which I use for social media due to its advanced abilities such as playing videos on the Web) and a while later started up Pale Moon. I was greeted with this message: "Your Pale Moon profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible."
I cannot open Pale Moon, even with the Profile Manager tags "palemoon.exe -ProfileManager", -p, -P, etc.
I then open my %APPDATA% folder.
I see the folder for Moonchild Producations, but when I click on it, a dialog box pops up, telling me "<Folder Name> is not accessible. Access is denied."
When I open the folder's properties, it says the folder is marked "Read Only", as many of the other folders seem to be, and contains 0 bytes, 0 files, and 0 folders.
I'm very confused, as my ThinkPad crashes all the time, and nothing like this has ever happened, and I can understand folder corruption, but the entire contents of it seem to be gone!
Please let me know if you have any ideas.
Thanks!!
Edit:
I think it may have something to do with this bug.
I now recall that I changed privileges last time and it needed to restart to instate them which happened when I restarted.
It seems that I have been running my user account with Administrator privileges for all these years which I have heard is not a smart idea. I went to the Windows NT User Control Applet (Run "control userpasswords2") and demoted my regular everyday user account to "Power User" privileges.
I right-clicked on palemoon.exe to Run As...Administor.
After that it opened without issue to the wizard that asks you if you want to import settings from Internet Explorer and acted like I was opening Pale Moon for the first time.
My profile folder is still inaccessible and apparently empty though, so that is an issue!
A number of other folders within the %APPDATA% directory display the same behaviour.
It makes me almost want to run as Administrator all the time again, but again, let me know the best practices, or at least how you operate!
Thanks again!