Folder content disappeared in mozilla-thunderbird after upgrading from 1.5 to 2.0
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Thunderbird |
Confirmed
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Unknown
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mozilla-thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird
Hello,
After upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy the content of one folder and all its subfolders disappeared in thunderbird. Hopefully I could find the reason. The problem was that the folder had a "." in its name. The name was "Open Source Inc." so originally 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 in the file name.
The solution was pretty simple, removing the "." in the old files and folder names and deleting the newly created files worked like a charm.
Thanks,
Karoly
Changed in mozilla-thunderbird: | |
importance: | Low → Medium |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
importance: | High → Unknown |
This regressed between 1.8 branch builds of seamonkey between 2007-01-17 and 2007-01-25, so bug 229522
If I just create an A.B.C. folder with 1.1, I get the following in my Work.sbd directory:
A.B.C.
A.B.C..msf
If I then bring up a later build with the bug, I get:
A.B.C.
A.B.Ce15fb51d
A.B.Ce15fb51d.msf
A.B.C..msf