The content of a folder has disappeared

[Mina]

Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird

All the content of a large folder (with a lot of subfolders and messages in) has disappeared. The folder, with its name, has remained. Is there some trick to retrieve its content???

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 22 22:47:24 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: mozilla-thunderbird 1.5.0.10-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: mozilla-thunderbird
Uname: Linux despachito 2.6.20-15-386 #2 Sun Apr 15 07:34:00 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Alex Latchford (alex.latchford)]

Erm.. I presume you have looked in the trash can?

Besides this try looking for the file.. ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/*profile name*/Mail/*Account Name*/Inbox.sbd/*Folder name*
Check to see if it contains anything.. If it doesn't I do not believe there is much we can do.

I am going to close this report as I do not believe it is a bug, please ask support questions over at the Answers Tracker.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-thunderbird/

Thanks, Alex.

[Karoly Molnar (karoly-molnar)]

Hi,

This has actually happened to me as well, the content of one folder and all its subfolders disappeared. Hopefully I could find the reason. The problem was that the folder had a "." in its name. The name was "Open Source Inc." so I had two files:
Open Source Inc.
Open Source Inc..msf
And one folder:
Open Source Inc..sbd

After the upgrade two new files were created:
Open Source Incc6bfcd54
Open Source Incc6bfcd54.msf

This lead me to a conclusion that the old thunderbird handled the "." as a dot and the new one replaced the "." with c6bfcd54.

The solution was pretty simple, removing the "." in the old file names and deleting the newly created files worked like a charm.

Not a big deal, but still a bug ;-)

[Karoly Molnar (karoly-molnar)]

Grrr

I posted this to a wrong place.

Sorry guys. ;-)