1964306 - When an automatic compression is triggered, I get a message saying that a disk error occurred and I should take steps to obtain more free disk space - manual compressions never produce the error message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1959858

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Sam]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/135.0.0.0

Steps to reproduce:

Used Thunderbird normally with Windows 11. Setting to compress folders automatically is set. Delete messages large enough to trigger automatic compression.

Actual results:

When an automatic compression is triggered, I get a message saying that a disk error occurred and I should take steps to obtain more free disk space. However, disk space is not a problem and manual compressions never produce the error message.

Expected results:

Automatic compression should proceed invisibly.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I think there are two issues:
#1 shouldn't normally fail
#2 yes for automatic compact, we shouldn't display error message to try later (as the user didn't trigger it to do at that moment in the first place)