473597 - New Archive folders not created

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 473373

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Onno Witvliet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090114 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090114 Shredder/3.0b2pre ID:20090114032812

When I try to use the new archive function, the archive folder(s) are not created

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use mail account where no archive folder exists
2. Open an email in the inbox or other folder
3. Click the archive button
Actual Results:  
No Archive folder is created, the following error appears in the Error Console
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80550013 [nsIMsgFolder.createStorageIfMissing]"  nsresult: "0x80550013 (<unknown>)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://messenger/content/mailWindowOverlay.js :: anonymous :: line 1056"  data: no]

Expected Results:  
The Folder(s) should have been created

After a few Shedder restarts and repeating the STR's, the folder Archive is created but is empty and the mail message has disappeared from the original folder.
After yet another restart and repeating the STR's a sub folder is created with the name of the year. After repeating the STR's and restarts several times a mail message is stored in the year-month folder, but several messages are lost in the process. The error message described above is logged repeatedly in the error console

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

What type of account are you using? and have you adjusted the location of your archive folder (e.g. to Local Folders)?

This is most likely to be a duplicate of bug 473373 if you're using local folders, or possibly even POP.

Comment 2

[Onno Witvliet]

I'm using a POP account with its own (local) folders (no global inbox or Local Folders). I haven't changed the default location of the archive folder

It certainly looks like a dupe of bug 473373