380954 - saved search folder named "? DNS" disappeared after upgrade to 2.0.0

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[denis.laplante]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.0 (20070326)

My 4 IMAP search folders, with names starting in "? ", all disappeared
a few seconds after I upgraded Thunderbird from version 1.5 to 2.0.0
and started up the new version.
In ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/default/*/ImapMail/SERVER/
they were still there (e.g. "? DNS.msf");
I also found new directories created like "%3F%20DNS.sbd"
and old directories like "?%20DNS.sbd".

The search folders reappeared after I renamed the "?*.msf" files to "%3F*.msf"
and restarted Thunderbird.  Too bad the names were displayed by Thunderbird as
"%3F%20DNS" instead of the original, at least they worked.

I have not found documentation on restrictions in folder names, but I had no trouble creating a local message folder named "?test" and a search folder named "? test".

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[denis.laplante]

Similar to Bug 314688 "Saved Search folder with a Japanese name changes its name or disappears after restarts" (2005)

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] (away until July 8)]

On 1.5 imap search folders had some problems which were fixed in bug 302470 (maybe other bugs too). I assume this happens to cause problems for existing search folders with non-ascii chars. 

Does it work for you if you now create a new saved search with the ?-name? At least it works fine for me on linux.

Comment 3

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

This is similar issue to Bug 379101 when upgrade, due to design change on file name for mail folder.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

can this still be reproduce on Mac?

Comment 5

[Jay Moran (jaym/lazvon)]

Attachment: Working just fine...

Nope, not happening for me.

Version: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2pre) Gecko/20090722 Shredder/3.0b4pre

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