263712 - cannot rename local folders because the corresponding files is not deleted on file system

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[bruno paul]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MultiZilla/1.6.2.0c
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MultiZilla/1.6.2.0c

when you rename local folders, the previous file still exist on file system 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Have a local folder named "2004" for instance
2.Rename that folder in "2003" : ok
3.Create a new local folder named "2004" in the same place 

Actual Results:  
popup message said this name is already used

Expected Results:  
Delete the local files "2004" AND "2004.msf" when this folder was renamed (this
action only creates new files for the moment)

This problem has multiple impacts :
* when you rename a folder
* when you move a local folder to another subfolder, or the trash, the
"name_of_the_file" still exist in the first location. It is duplicated on the
other location. This will cause doublons when mozilla Mail will restart, because
the "name_of_the_file.msf" will be reconstruct on the previous location.
* when you deleted the local folder and create a new folder with the exact same
name in the same location : the new folder contains all the mails from the
"deleted" folder.

Theses problems exist for years in mozilla Mail.

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

DUP of Bug 65303?
	

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

have you tried a more recent trunk build? I thought I fixed this at one point...

Comment 3

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

bruno paul, if your folder name in real case contains non-ASCII characters, see
Bug 264071.

Comment 4

[bruno paul]

no I don't use in my folder name in real case any non-ASCII characters. I use
lower-case, upper-case and numbers.

I haven't tried any nightly build more recent than moz1.7.3

This bug is not exactly a DUP of Bug 65303, because moz does not crash when
reading the phantom mail in the new folder. 

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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