417059 - Having saved all my local mailbox on a CDROM, Thunderbird is unable to read it

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 364978

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[patrice Arnal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080207 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.6 (20071022)

I created a CDROM with all my "Local Folder" structure.
I created an profile with a Local Folder path pointing to the mounted CDROM.
When choosing this profile, Thunderbird loops and display nothing.
If I copy the CDROM content to my hard disk and make my "Local Folder" path pointing to this copy it works fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a cdrom with the Local Folder directory
2.Create a profile with a "Local Folder" path pointing to the mounted CDROM
3.Launch Thunderbird with that profile

Actual Results:  
4.TB loops endless

Expected Results:  
Just read the archive

This is not a setting problem : when I copy the archive on a RW media, it works.
The idea was to make one archive/year and to be able to read archived mails directly from the CD.
Apparently TB tries to update some files on the CD and fails....

Comment 1

[patrice Arnal]

Tried on a Linux box (Debian stable & Ubuntu 7.10 ) and windows XP pro SP2