188444 - Delete a Moz address book, HotSync, the same Moz address book reappears

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core Graveyard :: Palm Sync, defect)

Description

[Ninoschka Baca]

Trunk build 2003-01-08: WinMe

Overview: Delete an address book on the Mozilla Address Book (MozAB), that
exists on both desktop and the palm device, HotSync and the address book remains
on both.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start with an Address Book that appears in the MozAB and also exists on the
Palm device (i.e. AB1)
2. Delete the Address Book in MozAB
3. Exit out of Mozilla
4. HotSync
5. Restart Mozilla and load the MozAB

Actual Results:
MozAB - the address book is back (AB1)
Palm Device - the category is still present (AB1)

Expected Results:
MozAB- the address book (AB1) should be gone
Palm Device - the category (AB1) should be gone

This expected result more closely matches the behavior of the palm device with
the palm desktop software. I also beleive this is what a user would expect.

Comment 1

[Rajiv Dayal]

Hey Ninoschka remember way back when we started PalmSync module testing (before
ur sabatical) we decided that if a entire AB or category is removed from either
Mozilla or Palm we will not remove from the other side to avoid accidental loss
of data. Also removing an entire AB or category is a simple user task so we
decided to let the user handle it.

Hence we donot sync entire Address Book or Category deletions.

Comment 2

[Samir Gehani]

Over to Cavin.

Comment 3

[Rajiv Dayal]

Please change line 3-4 in comment #1 above from "to avoid accidental loss
of data" to "to avoid accidental loss of entire address book or category"

Comment 4

[Ninoschka Baca]

*** Bug 183574 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Cavin Song]

Fix checked in on 01/21.

Comment 6

[Ninoschka Baca]

Trunk build 2003-02-12: WinXP
Verified Fixed.

- Delete a category with records on the palm device and it recategorizes each
record in the Unfiled category and deletes the category(i.e. AB1). Sync and the
corresponding address book is deleted (i.e. AB1) and the record that was
recategorizes appears in the Mozilla AB Unfiled address book - as expected.

- Delete a Mozilla address book with cards results in the address book and all
its cards being deleted in Mozilla. Sync and the corresponding category (i.e.
AB1) is deleted along with all its records - as expected.