181627 - Compacting folders does not display "Done" in status bar when complete

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Adam Becevello]

This is with: 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021122

When you select Compact folders from the File menu it does not notify the user
when its done.  Instead, it leaves the message "Compacting folder <last folder
compacted>" on the status bar and never displays Done.  However, the message on
the status bar will change if another function writes to the status bar (such as
receiving new mail).

Note: This works correctly when Compaction happens at startup.  This is most
likely because something writes to the status bar as soon as its done so it is
not noticable.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Have mail files that require them to be compacted.
2) Select Compact Folders from the File menu
3) Notice it updates the display for each folder it compacts, but leaves the
message that it is compacting the last folder on the status bar until it gets
overridden.

When it is done compacting, it should display Done on the status bar.

Comment 1

[Arnaud Ladrière]

Same behaviour here with 1.3a on Win2k. In general The compact forlders feature
lacks a bit of UI : if I launch a compact folders (I have several gigs of
emails), which is a long operation, and then I continue working with mozilla (I
can since nothing gets blocked), the status bar stop displaying information on
the "compacting" that's being performed, and I never know when it's finished.
Besides I'd like to know before the approx time of the operation.

In my opinion, the compacter should have it's own UI (a small separate windows
or a special pane, for example below the folders pane) with information of
what's being currently done, time elapsed and remaining, a "Cancel" or "Stop"
button (YES!!), and an information about the disk usage gain. This would leave
the status bar available for other information.

Comment 2

[louis bennett]

this looks like it would be fixed by the patch discussed in bug 49202 comment
19. if that's the case, i imagine this should be marked as a duplicate. (comment
#1 should become another bug, if said bugs haven't already been filed.)

in 1.4b, instead of displaying "Document: Done", the status bar is empty after
compacting the folder selected. is this the desired behaviour?

Comment 3

[Adam Becevello]

It seems part of this bug has been fixed.  However, there is still a case when
"Done" is not displayed.  Here are the steps:

1)Have a folder that needs to be compacted (like deleting some messages from it)
2)Switch to a different folder from the one that needs to be compacted
3)Run compaction, and see that "Compacting folder: <name>" shows on the status
bar until you do another action.

Comment 4

[Meaker]

I get this bug too.

M$ Lookout Express does this in the right way. It puts up a dialog box saying
"Compacting Folders ..." with a progress bar, thereby stopping the user fiddling
with the data, emails etc. I think this is a useful strategy for two reasons:

1) Prevents possible user-driven data coorruption during compaction;

2) Gives user explicit feedback on compaction progress (and keeps status bar
free of frozen messages!)

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

I agree - better status would be very helpful here, and a progress window might
be the way to go.

Comment 6

[Max Alekseyev]

*** Bug 267695 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I agree - better status would be very helpful here, and a progress window
> might be the way to go.

Bug 157991: Implement modal progress for compacting local folders

Comment 8

[Craig Davis]

*** Bug 271095 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Michael Gabriel]

dupe of bug 157991 ?

Comment 10

[Michael Gabriel]

related/dupe: bug 254734 , bug 161752

Comment 11

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

this ends the compact with "Done compacting folders", unless the currently
selected folder is the last folder to be compacted, in which case loading the
currently loaded message clears the status message. But it's much better than
before...

Comment 12

[Markus Faßbender]

I use version 0.9+ (20041126) and the bug is still there :(

Comment 13

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I don't see any "Done" status message with TB 1.0, compacting a POP account or a 
single folder.  I don't see any status messages at on an IMAP account.

Comment 14

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #13)
> I don't see any "Done" status message with TB 1.0, compacting a POP account
> or a  single folder.

Bug 275199.

> I don't see any status messages at on an IMAP account.

I'm not sure if this is bug 273334 or not.

Comment 15

[Stefan Geisseler]

Resolved Fixed? I can't see any progress on this in Thunderbird version 1.5 Beta
1 (20050908)