373706 - some email folders were erased

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 372425

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[s munzel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1

When I upgraded 1.1.1 some of my email message folders were erased and the empty folder was copied so that there would be a folder named 'misc.' and one under it named 'misc.' also.  Both folders were empty of contents.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.name a folder placing a period character at the end of the name
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
The folder will be duplicated.  

Expected Results:  
The folder will not be duplicated or have its contents erased.

I found that only mail message folders with a name that ended in a period had their content erased and then had the empty folder duplicated in the list of folders.  

I can recover some of the lost contents from another computer, but I don't know where the SeaMonkey email folders reside on my iMac running OS 10.4.8.  

Can you tell me?

Comment 1

[s munzel]

contact: [e-mail]

Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> When I upgraded 1.1.1 some of my email message folders were erased and the

Which versions did you upgrade from and to ?
Can you attach screenshots of before and after the bug ?

> where the SeaMonkey email folders reside on my iMac running OS 10.4.8.  
> Can you tell me?

I found:
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_SeaMonkey>
{{
Mac OS X
~/Library/Mozilla/Profiles/<Profile name>/********.slt
~/Library/Application Support/Mozilla/Profiles/<Profile name>/********.slt
}}

Comment 4

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

This looks like a duplicate of bug 372425;

but confirming for the time being,
to give a chance to s munzel to answer/confirm.

Comment 5

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Mac OS X;
> named 'misc.'

Looks to be same issue as Bug 379101. See also Bug 372425.