286047 - Incorrect Dialog Text "write operation failed ...compact..." displayed on Write Attempt to Locked File

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Jerry Baker]

20050218 trunk

When another process has locked an mbox file, and Thunderbird tries to write to
that file, the user is prompted with a dialog that states that the write
operation failed. So far so good. The problem is that the dialog then suggests
to compact folders to free up disk space when, in fact, the problem has nothing
to do with disk space. It left my initially thinking that the MSF or even the
mail file itself had become corrupted.

Perhaps it would be better to say that Thunderbird was unable to write to the
file because another program is using it, or something to that effect.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

the dialog then suggests to compact folders to free up disk space

Current message does not include "compact".

https://searchfox.org/comm-central/source/mail/locales/en-US/chrome/messenger/localMsgs.properties#66 has
pop3MessageWriteError=Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox.