Status of user profiles after upgrades

Should we preserve the profile of users between updates to Tor Messenger? Put differently, do we want that users should re-enter their account details each time they upgrade to a new release?

added component::archived/tor messenger owner::sukhbir priority::medium resolution::fixed severity::normal status::closed type::defect labels

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As a user, no I'd rather not have to re-enter all my account settings that I don't know by heart on each upgrade. :)

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boklm: to avoid reseting the profile on update, tor browser updater has a patch to exclude it from the update: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/commit/?h=tor-browser-38.1.0esr-5.0-1&id=a27b340075e3ff2793f29aa3fa5ab60ea8fd13c7

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With the Tor Browser updater patches merged (see updater branch on tor-messenger-build.git), the user profiles are preserved after update. This is also true for OS X where the profile is stored in ~/Library/Application\ Support/TorMessenger-Data.

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<+sukhe> hello. yes, I think it's fine to close the tickets. thanks for doing what we should done earlier :)

sad but true: https://blog.torproject.org/sunsetting-tor-messenger

luckily there are alternatives: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-heart-onion-messaging

.. and maybe someday

• https://cwtch.im (#27364)
• https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole/issues/8

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