218875 - error importing mail from outlook express if there is a forward slash ( / ) in the folder name

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 131013

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[sam]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.2/thunderbird-0.2-win32.zip

I had a folder called 'friends / family' in Outlook Express.  When I went to
import mail to Thunderbird, there was an error saying something like 'can't
create destination file friends / family'.  was importing from outlook express 5
(the version that comes with win98SE)

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a folder in Outlook express with a forwardslash in the name e.g.
'friends / family' 
2. Import mail from outlook express
3.

Actual Results:  
it gave the error message but recovered fine (didn't crash)

Expected Results:  
imported all messages

i just changed the folder name in OE to something without a forwardslash and the
import worked fine.

Comment 1

[Malte Rücker (mbr)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131013 ***