190023 - Can not move folders to desired places

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Donald Bock]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030117
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030117

Can not move folders to disired places in folder layout tree hierarchy

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to move folder by click or drag to new spot in folder hierarchy.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
folders would move to new spot becomming parent daughter or son of folders above or below.

Win98SE, 256MB RAM, 16MB Nvidia HP-TNT2 AGP

Comment 1

[Donald Bock]

My folders are all aplphabetized. Yet, I want to have:
+Inbox
|-Drafts
|-Templates
|-Trash
---
Personal Folders
(alphabetized)

Comment 2

[H.H. Nguyen]

Similar error in Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 (20031013).

But here, it copies the folder structure without the mails.
After "moving", you have all folders you dragged to the new location, but 
without the mails contained therein. These mails (and the original folders 
themselves) reside where they were originally.

Workaround: Use Windows Explorer and move the files manually.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This bug appears similar to bug 67567 and bug 193314.  However, if I'm reading 
it correctly, the issue here is that the special folders (particuarly for POP 
accounts) cannot be dragged from the top level of the hierarchy; is that 
correct?

Interestingly, they can be dragged into subfolders of 'Local Folders', but with 
the same problem noted in comment 2.  (They can't be dragged into the top level 
of Local Folders because of a name conflict.)

You can create Drafts and Templates (and Sent, and Junk) subfolders of the Inbox 
and then use the Copies and Folders page of Account Settings to specify them.  I 
don't think this is possible for Trash: these settings are in the preferences 
named, for instance,  mail.identity.id1.draft_folder  -- but apparently there 
are no "trash_folder" preferences.

See also bug 30057.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Also see bug 97943.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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