226916 - Empty Trash does not delete the .msf file of the open trash subfolder

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[:aceman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031116 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

MailNews does not close the .msf files of trash subfolders before emptying trash.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.delete a folder to the Trash
2.open the folder in trash (it's content is shown in the thread pane)
3.use context menu on the trash folder to empty trash
4.the trash folder is clean and empty
5.close Mozilla
6.look into Trash.sbd

Actual Results:  
There is .msf file left, probably more of them.

Expected Results:  
Trash.sbd should be completely empty.

I suspect this is caused because Mozilla has the .msf file open, thus locked.
Empty trash does simply delete all files in the directory and does not check
whether it was really successfull. On Windows, open files cannot be deleted.

This may be fixed by bug 96388, but that one probably isn't going to be fixed by
any code change. It could also fit into some 'file handling' component, but
closing all necessary .msf files before emptying trash should be cleaner.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

yes, you're right - we should force closed the db's of any sub-folders of the
trash. I believe we do this for the Trash folder itself, but we probably don't
do it for sub-folders.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

bienvenu thinks this no longer exists. 
please reopen if you disagree