111907 - Unable to change location of local newsgroup info

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek]

Version: 0.9.6 Win32 (WinNT4 sp6)
To reproduce:
1) create newsgroup account
2) verify it works : try to read some posts
3) in Account prefs, bottom of server settings: change the folder 
where local info for this account is stored
4) when trying to read a post Mozilla locks. All news and browser windows.

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

So, did you shutdown and restart, allowing the code to reread the prefs?  
Perhaps we need to morph this bug into, "Changing news disk storage prefs should
tell you to restart".  I don't think we can change values on the fly like that.

Comment 2

[Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek]

Restarting Mozilla after changing prefs didnt help.

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Confirming, although I don't lock up, I get the following:

When changing the value from my normal profile's path, it automatically changes 
it to:

C:\Program Files\Netscape\Netscape 6.2\mail.identity.id4.reply_to

And, there is _nothing_ in that directory, yet the screenshot I'm going to 
attach shows that we're still using the old location.

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Attachment: Screenshot of my file system, note the time reflected for my Last Modified date on the files.

Comment 5

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

nominating.

Comment 6

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

*** Bug 111630 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 8

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 9

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

WFM on 3.1rc1