265021 - Deleting a folder with subfolders does not inactivate filters that reference the subfolders

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

I deleted a folder and was warned that the referencing filters would be
inactivated.  Since it was for an old mailing list I'm no longer subscribing to,
I intended to delete the filter anyway, and figured it'd be easy to find in the
filter dialog because I could look for the dot in the list.  No dot.  Had to
figure it out by name and go digging for it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a filter which references a subfolder
2. Right-click on the parent folder and choose Delete Folder
3. A warning is given "you have a filter that references <subfolder>.  If you
continue, this filter will be inactivated.  Are you sure you want to delete?"
4. Choose Yes. Parent folder (and contents) moves to the trash
5. Open Filters dialog.
6. Observe that the above-mentioned filter is still active (has a checkmark
instead of a dot).

Actual Results:  
Filter was still active

Expected Results:  
Filter should have been inactive

Comment 1

[Albert Feller]

I can reproduce this bug on Win2k/TB1.0
please change Hardware/OS accordingly

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Dave do yo still see this? Should be gone.

Comment 3

[:aceman]

This still exists, in bug 454589.

Comment 4

[:aceman]

I propose duping to that one, as it already has some dupes (admittedly done by me, so you can reconsider).

This bug says about SUBfolders, but it may be basically the same problem.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

perhaps the patch that eventually lands in perhaps  should fix this, but I'm a little concerned this special case might get missed. so I think keep this open, and verify after bug 454589 is fixed.