262891 - Cannot change the Local Folders Directory

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259230

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Jhon H. Caicedo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

I used to change the Local Folders directory used to store the e-mail,
however, I have noticed that in Thunderbird 0.8 this function is not 
working
- I was able to manually open prefs.js and do the changes to the variables:
  mail.server.server1.directory 
  mail.server.server1.directory-rel

  When doing the chang this way, the new directory is used.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select menu Tools/Account Settings
2. Select Local Folders
3. Select Local Directory - Click on the Browse button, select a new 
   directory, then hit OK
Actual Results:  
After browsing for a new directory, the name of the directory is not changed, 
it remains at the default of C:\Documents and Settings\....\profiles\....



Expected Results:  
It should change the Local Directory used to store the mail in "Local Folders"
to the new selected one.

Comment 1

[Stefan Borggraefe]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 259230 ***