497035 - Saved search named "Inbox" can't be deleted or renamed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259184

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Adam Shackleford]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/530.17
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090223 Thunderbird/3.0b2

Create a saved search under "Local Folders" called "Inbox". It can't be deleted or renamed.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

File name of "Inbox" has special meaning for Tb(folder to download mails. If Global Inbox is used, it's applicable to pseudo account named "Local Folders". So "Local Folders" is also affected).

Recovery procedure.
  Shutdown Tb, delete file named Inbox and Inbox.msf, and restart Tb
If above is not effective, edit virtulFolders.dat in profile directory, remove entries for "Saved search folder named Inbox", and restart Tb.

Comment 2

[Adam Shackleford]

Thanks for the recovery procedure--it works.

I created the "Inbox" saved search accidentally, and it's not something that's likely to happen very often.

Nevertheless, TB needs to prevent the creation of saved searches with reserved names like "Inbox".