1944659 - Trying to save emails - "Unable to save the message. Please check your file name and try again later." - likely due to invalid chars in filenames

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Andrei]

Steps to reproduce:

Select multiple emails in a folder - context menu - Save as

Actual results:

Messagebox:

Unable to save the message. Please check your file name and try again later.

Error log:

1738177447309	addons.xpi	WARN	Checking C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\distribution\extensions for addons
1738177447576	addons.xpi	WARN	Addon with ID [e-mail] already installed, older version will be disabled
1738177447577	addons.xpi	WARN	Addon with ID [e-mail] already installed, older version will be disabled
Uncaught NS_ERROR_FILE_INVALID_PATH: Component returned failure code: 0x80520009 (NS_ERROR_FILE_INVALID_PATH) [nsIMessenger.saveMessages]
    SaveAsFile chrome://messenger/content/mailCommands.js:531
    cmd_saveAsFile chrome://messenger/content/mailCommon.js:346
    doCommand chrome://messenger/content/mailCommon.js:734
    onMailContextMenuCommand chrome://messenger/content/mailContext.js:527
    onCommand chrome://messenger/content/mailContext.js:156
    handleEvent chrome://messenger/content/mailContext.js:138
mailCommands.js:531
NS_ERROR_FAILURE 

Expected results:

Comment 1

[Andrei]

PS looks like it's a problem with email subject containing symbols that are invalid in file names, but I can't say which ones as there are too many emails in that folder.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

What OS are you using? And what filesystem are you trying to save to?

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Please file Android issues under https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Sorry, wrong bug

Comment 5

[Andrei]

(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] (away, back June 30) from comment #2)

What OS are you using? And what filesystem are you trying to save to?

Windows / NTFS.