298869 - Mail folder names corrupted - that were previoulsy named correctly

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Joe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

At some point in recent days, 8 of my almost 80 mail folders and sub-folders
were suddenly renamed by Thunderbird.  The new names were similar in length and
format.  Here are the renames created by Thunderbird:

New Main folders Renames: 369aadf0, 42143639, 7f49e35b, 8bba104e.  None of their
sub-folders names were changed.

The main folder 369aadf0 wasn't a rename but was new - created by Thunderbird
and now contained mail from another main folder.

New Sub-folders Renames: these first 3 were under the same main folder:
b8cac9eb, c0f9bd3c, 53a6bfc6 and e578e8cb.  Their main folder names did not change.

I don't know if this was a result of a sudden system power down, system crash
(both rare occurrences), when I compacted Thunderbird's folders or as a result
of some other event.  They were just there one day.

I can't duplicate it, nor can I tie the undesired renaming to any specific
event.  I was able to rename all the folders back to their original names. 

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Maybe related to bug 219268 or Suite bug 140212 comment 35?

Comment 2

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does the issue still occur with the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported Thunderbird version 2 is 2.0.0.16)

Comment 3

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO per lack of response to the last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.