Open Bug 385668 Opened 18 years ago Updated 16 years ago

profile migration creates two copies of IMAP folders with spaces in the names

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Startup & Profiles, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: nelson, Unassigned)

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Details

Gecko/2007062001 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre I migrated from SM 1.5a to SM 2.0a1 using this build. My IMAPS account has folders within folders. Many of my top level folders have spaces in the names, e.g. "ABC Aliases", "ABC Colleagues". The migrator caused all of the top level folders with spaces in the names to be copied twice, once with a space in the name, and once with %20 in the name, e.g. "ABC Aliases" and "ABC%20Aliases". The contents of these duplicated high level folders are identical. It appears that SM simply has two names for each higher level folder, and the same underlying contents are reached by either name. This bug requests that the migrator be fixed to not do that. And it is also a request for support. How do I get rid of the unwanted top level pseudo-folders with the %20 in the names, without losing any of the contents?
Flags: blocking-seamonkey2.0a1?
One of my old top-level folders was named "XXX Dead Folders". After the migration, I expected to find these two directory entries: XXX Dead Folders.msf XXX Dead Folders.sbd But I actually found these four: XXX Dead Folders-1.msf XXX Dead Folders.msf XXX Dead Folders.sbd XXX%20Dead%20Folders.msf Likewise, for "ABC Colleagues" I found: ABC Colleagues-1.msf ABC Colleagues.msf ABC Colleagues.sbd ABC%20Colleagues.msf After seeing new top level folders with the names ABC%20Colleagues and XXX%20Dead%20Folders, I had expected to find XXX%20Dead%20Folders.sbd and ABC%20Colleagues.sbd subdirectories. But those directories did not exist. While SM was not running, I deleted all the *-1.msf and *%20*.msf files. Then when I restarted SM, things appeared to be normal again.
Blocks: 329744
I was unable to reproduce this on linux... I created a top-level folder in my IMAP with a space in it. I created a test profile with 1.1.7, set up the IMAP account in that profile and then migrated the profile. The folder was migrated successfully by a current trunk build. I also tried a trunk build from 2007-06-24 and that also migrated the folder successfully. I suspect there's some other ingredient needed to reproduce that I'm missing. Nelson, can you try to see if you still this problem (you'll need to create a new trunk profile and then invoke a trunk build with "-P newProfileName -migration -no-remote"). And perhaps try creating a 1.1.7 profile that just has the IMAP account and try migrating that profile.
Nelson, could you test to see if this still happens on a recently nightly? TIA Denying a1 blocking for the moment.
Flags: blocking-seamonkey2.0a1? → blocking-seamonkey2.0a1-
Ian, I kept a copy of my old unmigrated profile around for months, in case someone tried to fix something and asked me to try again. But after a while, I removed the old profile. So I have no old profile with which to try this migration again. I run nothing but the trunk, all the time, for years now.
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