190962 - local folder mail from Netscape 4.x disappears on restart

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Vince Hunley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

Mail in local mail folder is lost after restarting Mozilla. Actual mail folder
is reduced down to default size 192kb. My original files was 6mb!!! Mozilla sees the
correct folder and mail when started up but upon restart both folder and mail no
longer showing under Local folder and file is reduced back to default size.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Copy Netscape 4.x local mail folder to new local folder.(folder: Personal;size
6mb)
2.Point mozilla to new local folder directory. (c:\LMail)
3.Open Mozzila
4.Mozzila sees the Local folders w/mail. (New folder name Personal showing)
5.Restart mozzila

Actual Results:  
1.New folder call "Personal" is gone and file size on hard drive is now 192kb in
size.


Expected Results:  
Kept the local folder information for future population of personal emails

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

Mozilla uses .sbd as the directory name for parent directories of sub-folders.
That might be why the sub-folders aren't seen, if I understand you correctly

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

David says not worth keeping