302630 - "Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings" "local folders" "message storage" "local directory" cannot be set to a value different from the default value..

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Michael Soliman.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217

Moin Moin.

Upon trying to set the mail Directory to a drive, where the space is, I tried to
change "Mail & Newsgroups Account Stteings" "local foders" "message storage"
"local directory" from "c:\documents and settings\accountname\"... to one on a
different drive, say, "t:\netmail" (where there is enough space).
As it is Windows, I do not have soft-links.
Using the browse-button ignores my selection.
Changing the directories via about:config, editing prefs.js, panacea.dat does
not have any effect.
What I essentially wanted to do is, using my old netscape-database and import it
into mozilla.
_Tschuess,
__Michael.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click "Edit".
2. Click "Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings".
3. Click "local foders".
4. Click "message storage"/"local directory".
5. Click "browse".
6. Select the directory.
7. "local directory" still shows the old one "c:\documents and
settings\accountname\"... and does not show the netscape mails.

Actual Results:  
Changes ignored.

Expected Results:  
Use the new directory.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

did you try shutting down and restarting? It's a known issue that you need to
shut down and restart for that setting to take effect. If that's not the issue,
do you see anything on the js console when you try to change the directory?

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #1)
> It's a known issue that you need to
> shut down and restart for that setting to take effect. 

Bug 2654 -- Michael Soliman, mark this bug as a dupe of that one, if that's the 
problem you encountered.

Comment 3

[Michael Soliman.]

Moin Moin.
By the way, restarting Mozzi, after having tried to change this value, does not
have any effect, just as is the case with changing the opref.js, panacea.dat files.
_Tschuess,
__Michael.
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > It's a known issue that you need to
> > shut down and restart for that setting to take effect. 
> 
> Bug 2654 -- Michael Soliman, mark this bug as a dupe of that one, if that's the 
> problem you encountered.

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2654 ***

Comment 5

[Michael Soliman.]

Moin Moin.
I found it.
Changing the preferences by using the UI does not affect the problem and thus
makes this bug a new one with respect to
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2654 .
But ending Mozzi, changing the pref.js file directly along with (!!!) all
[profd] entries to the correct directory solves the problem.
_Tschuess,
__Michael.