325796 - SeaMonkey: Compact Folders progress feed-back in the Status Bar is gone

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 324085

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Rolf Sponsel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0

When compacting local Mail Folders the textual progress feed-back, usually displayed in the Status Bar by the Mozilla Application Suite, is no longer displayed by SeaMonkey 1.0.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure you have Local Mail Folders that need to be compacted, e.g. by (re-)moving some big Mail Messages.
2. Compact Mail Folders (e.g. via File->Compact, on Main Mail Window's Menu Bar)


Actual Results:  
I don't get the usual textual progress feed-back in the Status Bar, similar to "Compacting <folder name>" or the like.

Expected Results:  
Seeing some kind of progress feed-back so that I know when compacting mail folders is done, and thus safely can exit SeaMonkey (without risking to corrupt mail folders).

To me this seems like a SeaMonkey 1.0 REGRESSION BUG, since this behaviour did
not exist in Mozilla 1.7.12.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

WFM with SeaMonkey Trunk build 2006020310 and 1.8 Branch build 2006020401 on WinXP.

Comment 2

[irongut]

WFM
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060127 SeaMonkey/1.0

Comment 3

[Rolf Sponsel]

I guess I've managed to resolve this issue now, after having spent an hour on it.

I first reverted back to the Mozilla Application Suite (MAS) and verified that it worked there - which it did.

Then I verified that it still did *not* work in SeaMonkey - it didn't. It didn't work after having deleted the XUL.mfl file, and re-booting either.

After that I created a new SeaMonkey Profile from scratch, a couple of messages of about 5 Mb in size, and moved them around between the Inbox, Drafts, Sent and Trash and ran Compact Folders. No sign of any change in behavior.

Went to the Profile's Mail directory and checked the files with an emacs , and noticed that the messages couldn't be found in the account - at all!?

Noticed that they were residing in the Local Folders structure. After that I noticed that the account that I had created in the new Profile was not visible in the list of Mail Accounts in the Mail Accounts Pane - although I could find it in the list of accounts that is visible by "View settings for this account". Decided delete it and create another account by means of the buttons at the bottom of that list.

After that I moved the 0.5 Mb messages to the newly created account and moved them around, as explained above. After that I got the textual feed-back in the Status Bar! :-)

Exiting SeaMonkey; re-starting SeaMonkey, this time my production profile, via Profile Manager; creating some big garbage messages like before, and moving them around, didn't make the textual feed-back reappear. Hmm, decided to restart SeaMonkey. About the same time when I chose to exit, I got an visual alert about new messages on the POP-server - and SeaMonkey CRASHED! (which might be a bug ;-) )

After re-launching SeaMonkey; repeating my procedure, moving messages around, and - voila! I had gotten back my textual feed-back messages in the Status Bar.

I'm happy again! Let me stay happy! (i.e. don't ask me why it's working again ;-) )

[JFYI, The theme in use was Classic, the Folder had been used with the Mozilla Application Suite 1.7.12 before, the Local Mail Directory contained just above 300 MB of messages, in 3 levels of sub-folders, and the Profile had 5 Mail Accounts defined, some POP- and some IMAP-accounts. WinNT/4.0sp6, 266Mz. This supplied as background information for the future - just in case.]

Thus, could this report be considered INVALID - or what?

Comment 4

[Rolf Sponsel]

Oh no! Hold Your horses please. The messages have vanished again. To bad :-(
I need to monitor this (non-)behaviour for a while.

Comment 5

[Rolf Sponsel]

Hmmm... I've tried to keep an eye on this and tend to see a pattern here :-)

Since I'm working in a somewhat restricted environment I seem to have developed a behavior where I now and then explicitly request compaction of folders, via "File->Compact Folders" (see Menu Bar), instead of waiting to be alerted by the application.

Since my last post I have tried hard to alter this behavior, i.e. to not explicitly request compaction, and wait until SeaMonkey asks me whether I would like it to compact the folders, or not.

If I agree to have the folders compacted, when asked by SeaMonkey, the Compact Folders progress feed-back seems to appear in the Status Bar.

However, if I explicitly call for compaction then the progress feed-back doesn't appear.

I seem to be able to repeat this all the time by following these steps:

1. Enable Mail Folders to be compressed, to save Disk Space, when it will save over some amount of KB, e.g. 500KB; e.g. 'Preferences->Mail & Newsgroups->Offline & Disk Space->Disk Space = 500KB'.

2. Wait for SeaMonkey asking whether You'd like it to compact mail folders, and agree to that - You will now see the usual progress feed-back appear in the Status Bar of the Main Mail Window.

3. Create 5 instances of e.g. 0.5MB messages in the Drafts Folder.

4. Copy these to the Inbox folder.

5. Move them to e.g. the Sent folder, and move them again to e.g. the Trash Folder, before deleting them entirely.

6. Request compaction of Mail Folders via 'File->Compact Folders' - and the expected progress feed-back doesn't show up in the Status Bar, but I can hear/see the disk working and also see the processor activity increase, by monitoring the Task Manager.

Comment 6

[jwq]

Bug 324085 reports the same for Thunderbird.

Rolf, the explanation for appearing/disappearing progress messages is in Bug 324085.

Does mscott's advice <http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=10450> for bugs which appear in Thunderbird and Seamonkey still apply?

Comment 7

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 324085 ***