No, it's not. It's parallel to the FF
profile directory (which is in
.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/), the install directory is somewhere else entirely.
In any case, I don't see how this could possibly be a permissions problem. Other FEBE backups live there quite happily, and the problem only occurs when (I'm assuming) FEBE tries to remove the same backup two times, perhaps as consequence of a crash - or else tries to remove a backup that was never written. It's not there - the path in question
does not exist. Which is why FEBE gets a
NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST.
Copy to clipboard ... yup, that's how I got that message to start with. That is the exact, unmodified message. Except for the first and last line, obviously. Of course, that button doesn't exist on the last options page, and selecting text doesn't work there either ...
Just to avoid confusion, here's the message again:
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FEBE cannot remove the following old backups:
/home/kai/.mozilla/FEBE/default/FEBE 2017 10-14 04.00.03 : NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST
They must be removed manually. If this problem is due to directory permissions, you can prevent this from occurring in future backups by giving 'Full control' (Windows users) or 'chmod 777' (Linux) to the backup folder. You may also attempt to fix the permissions using FEBE Options > Advanced > Set read/write permissions in backup folder.
For more information about directory permissions, see this post in the support forum
Note: Your current backup should not have been affected by this problem and should complete normally. Future backups, however, will continue to display this message (but otherwise complete normally) until the issue is resolved.
Oh, and contrary to claims, it doesn't seem to pop up for future backups.
Really, it would seem to me that the fix is fairly simple: when trying to remove a file or directory, just treat NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST as "no error". You wanted to remove it, and for whatever reason, it's not there. Mission successful.