[tbb-bugs] #19725 [Applications/Tor Browser]: old updater files are left on disk after upgrade to TB 6.x

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#19725: old updater files are left on disk after upgrade to TB 6.x
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     Reporter:  mcs                       |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  defect                    |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                    |   Keywords:  tbb-6.0-issues
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 Some blog comments indicate that old mar files are being left on disk
 after a successful update from Tor Browser 5.x to 6.x. Kathy and I have
 confirmed that this is indeed happening on Windows and Linux.

 During the #13252 work, we moved the update info directory to a (more)
 consistent place on all platforms but we did not account for the issue of
 upgrading from older releases. The new location for update info is
 `Browser/UpdateInfo` on Linux and Windows and `TorBrowser-Data/UpdateInfo`
 on OSX.

 On Windows, the old location (where files are left on disk and not cleaned
 up) is `<installdir>/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/caches/firefox`.

 On Linux, the old location is `<installdir>/Browser (an updates/ directory
 plus old active-update.xml and updates.xml files are left there).

 Another consequence of this bug is that update history information is lost
 during the 5.x to 6.x update (because the code in TB 6.x does not look in
 the old place for it after the update is applied).

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