286572 - profile copying leads to database corruption

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Florian Effenberger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0

Profile copying leads to database corruption - well, at least, some sort of, I
guess.

Both machines are XP SP2, running the German Thunderbird 1.0, and are NTP
synchronized, so time drifts should be no problem. Profile direcories are
exactly the same and I copy the whole

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Florian Effenberger\Anwendungsdaten\Thunderbird

directory to the other machine. Symptoms that occur are:

1. Sometimes, folders containing messages do not show a number of messages,
although as I open the folder, they are there.

2. Sometimes, message number is doubled, i.e. showing 20 messages instead of 10.
As soon as I open the folder, the number is correct.

Compacting the folders does NOT always solve this problem.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Florian Effenberger]

I have found out that the sort order or threading view is changed also. Seems
there are some more troubles when copying files.

Relates to bug 266837.

Comment 2

[Florian Effenberger]

When not simply copying the profile, but RARing (compressing) it and telling RAR 
to keep all file times exactly as they were, the problem seems not to occur.

I guess that it has something to do with slight time changes between the two 
systems.

Could anyone please confirm this annoying bug?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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