Closed
Bug 300118
Opened 19 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
Renaming->Creating->Removing mail folders causes data loss.
Categories
(Thunderbird :: General, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: mscott)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows ME) Opera 7.54 [de]
Build Identifier: version 1.0.5 (20050707)
If mail folder A is renamed to B and then a new folder A is created, TB displays
that both folders would contain all the messages, which should only be in B.
In fact, only folder B really contains the messages. In folder A, you cannot
open the mails. - The file A is 0kB and B 43kB.
OK, till now, it is a cosmetic problem which could be resolved by deleting A.
msf, I think.
But, if you delete folder A (which should be empty as it was created in the
previous step), folder B is empty. All the messages are lost!
What i could see on the filesystem during these operations is very strange. I
will print out the most important files (A*, B*) after each step:
**1** Create folder A and copy some mails into it:
A.sbd
A.msf (3kB)
A (43kB)
**2** Rename folder A to B:
A.sbd <- should be deleted?
A.msf (3kB) <- sometimes deleted, sometimes not (non-deterministic)
B.sbd
B.msf (3kB)
B (43kB)
**3** Create folder A:
A.sbd
A.msf (3kB) <- sometimes deleted, sometimes not (non-deterministic)
A (0kB)
B.sbd
B.msf (4kB) <- 1kB more?
B (43kB)
**4** Delete folder A and empty trash:
A (0kB)
A.sbd
Bad, bad, bad...
Now TB displays only folder B, but the file system contains only the file A. So
B is empty and undeletable in TB.
Besides this, I noticed non-deterministic behaviour reproducing the procedure
again and again: After renaming A to B, TB displayed in most cases folder B, but
sometimes folder A. Renaming this folder A to B again is not possible. This
behaviour happened randomly.
All test have been performed in the "Local Folders". I don't know, if POP- or
IMAP-accounts are affected. At least POP-accounts are very likely to be
concerned.
Regards,
Michael
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create folder A in Local Folders and copy some mails into it.
2. Rename A to B.
3. Create folder A in Local Folders.
4. Delete folder A.
Actual Results:
B is empty.
Expected Results:
TB should not have deleted the mails in B.
I used this file to reproduce this bug successfully:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2005-07-07-08-aviary1.
0.1/thunderbird-win32.zip
I (and some more guys from the german support forum) could also reproduce this
bug on TB-1.0.2.
This bug was reproduced on WinXP and WinME.
Comment 1•19 years ago
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please try a trunk build...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65303 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Reporter | ||
Comment 2•19 years ago
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(In reply to comment #1)
> please try a trunk build...
I really tried to run this trunk build:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2005-07-08-06-trunk/
thunderbird-1.0+.en-US.win32.zip
But I could not even see Local folders in that build (WinME):
http://wenger.home.t-link.de/net/TB-trunk08072005.png
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65303 ***
Hmm,I wonder, why I didn't find this bug. I had searched for 'rename' and
'renaming'...
Michael
Comment 3•19 years ago
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did you search on just open bugs, or did you search on fixed bugs as well? If
it's marked fixed, a search on open bugs won't find it. Re the 07/08/06 build,
I'm running that build w/o a problem, so I'm not sure what to say. Do you see
anything on the js console?
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