Closed Bug 108201 Opened 24 years ago Closed 14 years ago

better filename than "panacea.dat"

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Backend, enhancement)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Backend
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: jcranmer)

Details

(Whiteboard: [wontfix])

the filename "panacea.dat" is really really bad. Why not rename it to "Folder Summaries.dat"
8.3 limitation on some platforms, for one thing.
filenames with spaces are no good...:)
Summary: rename "panacea.dat" to "Folder Summaries.dat" → better filename than "panacea.dat"
We could worry about that if we ever ported Mozilla to MS-DOS. We'd have to stop naming mail folders after the names of the servers, too.
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Hardware: PC → All
MS-DOS? What is? :) btw, IMHO there are some (many?) more important bugs to resolve before this.
reassigning to bienvenu.
Assignee: mscott → bienvenu
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
yeah, there are probably at leat 50,000 more important bugs to fix - if we ever need to rev the version on this file so that we lose backwards compatibility, then changing the name would be OK. But as is, if we diverge on the name, counts will get off if you use different builds.
os/2's fat driver has the same limitation as dos.
Why does the panacea.dat file disappear on W2K at random and crash your system?
running two copies/instances of mozilla against the same profile will corrupt panacea.dat - other than that, I don't know why it would get corrupted and disappear.
adding lworthington65@yahoo.com to cc list in order to see my response to his question.
WRT OS/2: only its FAT file system support has the same name length limitation as MS-DOS. Mozilla on OS/2 can't be installed on FAT due to many other non 8.3 file names, so it does not need to be an issue if this one ever gets changed.
I have a write problem with "panacea.dat", because i try share a mail profile/folder for group mailing reasons. How is the correct way/setup to share a profile for group mail functionality with mozilla mail? (No, i cannot use IMAP) THX Harald
folders.dat would be better, if that is indeed its purpose
Product: MailNews → Core
I think Joshua will fix this with his work to use sqlite instead of Mork for the folder cache.
Assignee: bienvenu → Pidgeot18
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
QA Contact: esther → backend
Product: Core → MailNews Core
joshua, david, can we deep six this, or dupe it to bug 418551?
Whiteboard: [wontfix]
not a dup, but if someone fixes bug 418551, they could rename the file at the same time.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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