402135 - thread pane column sort order changes not saved once folder renamed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 536892

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Wim Bos]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.6 (20070728)

When trying to change the sort order of an existing folder, the change in sort order is not saved. When navigating to another folder and back, the sort order is back to it's original). Changing other folder options or quiting the application does not resolve (folder sort order keeps returning to no longer wanted previous sort order).

This behavior appears to be folder specific (some have it, while others do not). Seems to only occur for folders with a name change (an .msf file with the old name still exists), but not straight away (like only after a few minutes).

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Rename existing folder & wait 1 or 2 minutes
2. Change sort order to be based on another field
3. Swith to another folder and back -> new sort order is lost

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

WFM using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007110504 Thunderbird/3.0a1pre ID:2007110504, for a POP account

Comment 2

[Nikolay Shopik]

version 3.0a2pre (2008071003) IMAP 

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

nikolay, this might be a dupe.  how long did you have to wait?  

Comment 4

[Nikolay Shopik]

I've changed sort of folder, renamed it and look into it. Sort order disappears no wait at all. For my case it regenerate index, think its new folder.

Comment 5

[Toni Willberg]

I can reproduce this with version 2.0.0.19 (20081209) (Windows XP).

Not exactly sure how to reproduce it on demand, it happens randomly for me. I did not rename the folder as this happens to my Inbox. 

However I found a workaround when searching info about this problem: 
 1) View > Sort By > Grouped By Sort G
 2) View > Sort By > Threaded
 => this makes the sort order setting saved to the configuration file

ps. the problem started to happen exactly after new year's eve, so it might be related to year (date) change? :)

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

do you see this in version 3?

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

still see in version 3.1.2

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

duping forward to bug which has developer comments