317210 - Thunderbird allows one to delete a trash folder & then won't be able to delete anything.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Steven Coco]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 (ax)
Build Identifier: version 1.0.2 (20050317)

I somehow accidentally deleted the trash folder from the RSS category.  (It is interesting for me to mention that I did this by some unintentional selection or a keystroke that I though was going to work on the selected message but deleted this folder instead, so the UI was odd here too.)

Once deleted, one is then unable to delete selected messages.

I was able to resore the folder by simply creating a new folder and naming it "Trash".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Delete the trash folder.
2. Attempt to delete some message (in that trah folder's category: RSS or Mail).
3. Fail.

Actual Results:  
It would seem that I might be posting an RFE, but the fact that you can no longer delete messages is too wierd.  An average user would easily have been stuck here.

Expected Results:  
Either don't allow the folder to delete, or give an audio/visial alert and confirmation.

Windows 'ver' output:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Have you tried to reproduce in thunderbird 1.5rc? I can't over here...

Comment 2

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

There is a warning dialog on delete folder.