271844 - weird error message when renaming folder

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[martin]

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

when I try to rename a folder to "valid_name" it says it cant be done because
it's reparsing. I wait like 10 minutes and try again, still the same result.
Mozilla is obviously lying about reparsing stuff (also CPU load is 99% idle and
no disk activity).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Renamed a folder called "Misc" into ".Misc/hej" in order to verify that
another old bug had been properly fixed. This renaming worked ok.
2. Restarted Mozilla Mail (still had browser windows open though).
3. The ".Misc/hej" folder displays correctly but now appears to be empty instead
of containing 4-5 mails as it did before I renamed it.
4. I try to rename it back to "Misc", did not work.
5. I tried to rename it to "valid_name", it did not work (see screenshot for
exact error message).

Actual Results:  
I was unable to rename the folder and Mozilla failed to give me a good reason as
to why I could not rename it. Thus I got **** off.

Expected Results:  
It should have renamed the folder as I told it to do.

I marked this bug as critical because it appears as if I have lost the 4-5
e-mails that were located in the "Misc" folder when I first rename it.


Also note that a few months ago Mozilla acted a little bit weird one day,
whenever I clicked a folder it said "rebuilding index" or something like that.
This happened with most folders, but at this stage I did not loose any e-mails
(afaik). Perhaps this reparsing was related?

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Dup of Bug 65303.

Why did you open Bug 271847 after this bug?
Do not waste bugzilla resources, please.

Comment 2

[martin]

Because this bug is about not beeing able to rename a folder and the other one
is about mail disappearing when renaming twice, they are two different bugs.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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