259230 - Local Folders path can't be changed

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Haris Karahristianidis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040912 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040912 Firefox/0.10

I want to put Local Folders to another drive to be saver, but it is not possible.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to Tools/Account Settings/Local Folders
2.Click "Browse" and choose another folder and click ok
3.C:\Documents and Settings\HK\Application
Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\ga7y0k7s.default\Mail\Local Folders is still the place
of Local Folders
Actual Results:  
Local Folders are still in Documents and Settings instead of the folder I chose.

Expected Results:  
It should put Local Folders in the folder I chose.

version 0.8 (20040906) Branch

Comment 1

[Ben Hollis]

Happens to me too - I just did a fresh install of TB .8 and can't change the
folder for "Local Folders".

Also, I suggest the Summary of this bug be changed to "Local Folders path can't
be changed"

Comment 2

[Chris D.Emery]

Several users report same issue on Thunderbird Bugs forum. I find you can make
the change (On WinXP SP2, with build 18092004) by editing Prefs.js while the
application is not running then restarting.. but the graphical picker is borked.

Comment 3

[Haris Karahristianidis]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Several users report same issue on Thunderbird Bugs forum. I find you can make
> the change (On WinXP SP2, with build 18092004) by editing Prefs.js while the
> application is not running then restarting.. but the graphical picker is borked.

Exactly which lines did you change?

Comment 4

[Chris D.Emery]

> Exactly which lines did you change?

user_pref("mail.server.server1.directory", "F:\\Documents\\Settings\\Thunderbird
Emails\\Local Folders");     

this did it for me with the 0.8 release, provided the app wasn't running at the
time. The next line in the Prefs file changed itself when I next restarted
Thunderbird, it wasn't necessary to manually edit it.

This is from prefs.js, found in C:\Documents and
Settings\**USERNAME**\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\default.nx9

At least one person was unable to reproduce my success in editing this file
though, so good luck!

Chris

Comment 5

[Chris D.Emery]

It looks like this *may* be a re-occurrence of Bug 201798 from the Mozilla
Mail/News component way back in 2003.. apparently this is a rolling problem with
Mozilla releases

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201798

Comment 6

[Haris Karahristianidis]

(In reply to comment #4)
> > Exactly which lines did you change?
> 
> user_pref("mail.server.server1.directory", "F:\\Documents\\Settings\\Thunderbird
> Emails\\Local Folders");     
> 
> this did it for me with the 0.8 release, provided the app wasn't running at the
> time. The next line in the Prefs file changed itself when I next restarted
> Thunderbird, it wasn't necessary to manually edit it.
> 
> This is from prefs.js, found in C:\Documents and
> Settings\**USERNAME**\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\default.nx9
> 
> At least one person was unable to reproduce my success in editing this file
> though, so good luck!
> 
> Chris


Thanks Chris, but it didn't work for me. I changed the path in prefs.js, but
when I opened Tb in Account Settings, the path has not been changed..

Comment 7

[Chris D.Emery]

You'll have to install 0.73, change the setting there, and upgrade to 0.8 then.
That will preserve the setting although you won't subsequently be able to change
it until Moz release a version without this bug.

Comment 8

[Robby Workman]

*** Bug 260303 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Robby Workman]

Also present in Slackware 10 Linux; kernel 2.6.8.1; 20040923 Branch.
RW

Comment 10

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Same question as Bug 201798 Comment #4 :
Repeatedly and frequently reported Bug 2654 ?
> 2654 : localPath does not take effect until restart

See also Bug 224831
> 224831 : Issue warning to restart(due to Bug 2654) when Local Directry setting
is changed

Comment 11

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

we need to define onPreInit so it will get called, and set gServer, so
amUtils.js code that handles the browse button will work. This is broken in
thunderbird trunk and branch.

Comment 12

[David :Bienvenu]

*** Bug 261243 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[David :Bienvenu]

*** Bug 262239 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Stefan Borggraefe]

*** Bug 262891 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[David :Bienvenu]

*** Bug 263193 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Larry Hobbs]

Attachment: local folder

Comment 17

[Philip Christian]

I had to change two lines in prefs.js to make it move my local folder where I
wanted.

Before change:-
user_pref("mail.server.server1.directory", "C:\\Documents and
Settings\\myname\\Application
Data\\Thunderbird\\Profiles\\quz74ro4.default\\Mail\\Local Folders");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.directory-rel", "[ProfD]Mail/Local Folders");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.hostname", "Local Folders");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.name", "Local Folders");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.type", "none");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.userName", "nobody");

After change:-
user_pref("mail.server.server1.directory", "E:\\Mail\\Thunderbird\\Local Folders");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.directory-rel",
"[ProfD]../../../../../../../E:/Mail/Thunderbird/Local Folders");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.hostname", "Local Folders");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.name", "Local Folders");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.type", "none");
user_pref("mail.server.server1.userName", "nobody");

There are two prefs.js on my C: drive and I edited the one in c:\Documents and
Settings rather than the one in c:\Program Files

hope that helps

Comment 18

[David :Bienvenu]

*** Bug 265775 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[Wong, Paul]

I encounter the same error of not being able to change local folder in
Thunderbird 1.4 (1.5b1). Is it a regression? Or should it be like this?