216858 - hundreds of mails lost after changing local folder to a different drive and subfolder

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[okin4mozilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

As I have changed the "local account" settings for "local accounts" from
c:\documents .... to d:\mozilla .... (for better back up opportunities) all
mails where lost. First I still could see them in the local accounts folder but
not move them to other folders. No subfolders are existent in the "local
accounts" folder, no mails subsequently. As I have changed the folder back under
"local account" settings nothing changed - no subfolders or mails.

As I looked for new or old subdirectories in C: or D: as I thought I would have
created them by changing folders in the "local account" settings, I did not find
any of the subdirectories.
As I have searched for the mails by contend (incl. archives) in WINCOMMANDER
nothing was found.

Where are my mails?

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change the "local account" settings for "local accounts" from c:\documnets
.... to d:\mozilla ....
2. Close and open Mozilla
3. Look for mails or subfolders in local account

Actual Results:  
No subfolders anymore - subsequently no mails anymore

Expected Results:  
show mails under mozilla in same folders as before - but store them on different
drive in differnet subdirectory

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

>Where are my mails?
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.4/installation.html#files :

C:\Documents and Settings\[Log-in Name]\Application
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\[random string].slt\

german win2k :
C:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\[USERNAME]\Anwendungsdaten\Mozilla\Profiles\[PROFILENAME]\random.slt\Mail\Local
Folders>

Mozilla will not move your mails if you change the mail location. You can
manually copy the files if you want to change the location of a used Account 

Comment 2

[Oliver Klee]

This is not major severity.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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