350421 - opening folder hangs if summary file (msf) read-only

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221714

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[Ken Arnold]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6

Noticed this when moving some mail from another computer by way of a zip file. Not sure how it got read-only, but un-marking read-only fixed it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a local folder, so the .msf file is created.
2. Exit Thunderbird and mark the msf read-only. (You may have to make some change to the mailbox file also, I'm not sure.)
3. Reopen Thunderbird and open the folder.

Actual Results:  
Hangs on "Reading summary file for (xxx)..." (not a hard app hang, just the folder never opens)

Expected Results:  
Remove the conflicting/read-only msf file and recreate it

Not serious, and shouldn't happen in normal course of operation, but this could be the cause lurking behind a lot of the other bugs about summary files.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

if a file is read only, can you delete it?

Comment 2

[moz]

> if a file is read only, can you delete it?
Thunderbird, as a program, can delete it (making it "read/write" if it is necessary).

If Thunderbird hangs because of little problems, soluble like this, making tricky questions won't solve the bug.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

David, feel free to correct component if i got it wrong

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

no hang with version 2.0.0.12 (20080213) but I see bug 221714