477602 - cannot delete a folder if Trash already contains a folder with same name

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 66763

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Alexander Sack]

Ubuntu Bug: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/214366

1. Create a new folder, eg. "Temp"
2. Delete it
3. Create the same folder again
4. Delete it

I expect it to be moved to my Trash folder, perhaps with a suffix appended (it being the second instance of that folder in the trash).

Thunderbird popped up an error message. On an imap host:
   The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Mailbox already exists.
In the local folders:
   A folder with that name already exists. Please enter a different name (!)

Workarounds:
1. Empty the trash
2. Rename the folder before deletion
3. Rename the folder already in the trash
4. Delete (permanently) the folder that is already in the trash

Comment 1

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

R.Duplicate, per
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/214366/comments/9