356835 - "Clear Log" in Tools -> Options... -> privacy -> junk -> "Show Log..." does nothing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 361865

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Jack Eidsness]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061016 Minefield/3.0a1
Build Identifier: version 3 alpha 1 (20061015)

I was going to clear my junk log before turning off junk logging, and the "Clear Log" button does nothing.   After turning off junk logging, and restarting, and turning it back on again, then I was able to do it though.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Leave junk logging on for a while  (perhaps through multiple starts and stops of thunderbird - i did)
2. go to the "show log" interface
3. click "Clear Log"


Actual Results:  
The button's 3d "push" animation happens, but there is no visible effect.

Expected Results:  
The Log display and the file storing the log should be cleared of text.

The first and really only time I saw this happen, I tried turning off logging and turning it back on again before clearing the log (you can't enter the "show log" dialog, to see the "clear log" button, without having logging on) and I was unable to clear the log.  I wasn't able to clear the log until after quitting Thunderbird while logging was off, and starting Thunderbird again, and turning logging back on.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 361865 ***