501076 - List of "Recent" folders (for Move-to / Copy-to / ...) only updated after thunderbird restart

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 370324

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Alain Knaff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009061118 Fedora/3.0.11-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.11
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.21 (20090320)

The list of "recent" folders shown for Move-to or Copy-to is only updated after leaving and restarting thunderbird

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Move a message to a folder A which is not yet in recent
2. Go again into the move-to folder: the folder A is not yet in the list
3. Leave Thunderbird
4. Restart Thunderbird
5. The folder A is now in the list
Actual Results:  
Folders to which I recently moved messages to don't show up in the Recent list within the same session

Expected Results:  
Folders to which I move or copy a message to should show up in the "Recent" list as soon as possible, even without needing to restart the program.

Comment 1

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

WFM on Windows beta 3.

You can try with Linux beta 3?

Comment 2

[Fritz Meissner]

I can confirm the same happens with Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 running on Windows XP.

Comment 3

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Fritz, could you try to see if it still happens with
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/ ?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

pretty sure this is fixed on trunk.
you can confirm by trying a recent beta 3
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/Thunderbird_Binaries

WFM

Comment 5

[Alain Knaff]

Nope, problem still exists in Beta 3

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Fritz, do you also see this using the beta?

Comment 7

[Fritz Meissner]

Wayne, I haven't tried the Beta because this is on my company computer and I can't really use it for experimenting. FWIW, the bug is still there in 2.0.0.23 which I installed today as a security update.

Comment 8

[Fritz Meissner]

I gave 3.0b4pre a try (on Windows XP) without uninstalling my 2.0; result was still the same - the recent list is only updated after restarting Thunderbird. BTW, I nearly cancelled the install when I saw the project name - "Shredder" does not sound like something I want near my precious data :-)

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Easy to reproduce using comment 0, so confirming. but I don't know if it's 100% reproducible. It doesn't seem to matter if it's a copy vs a move, or a drag vs using folder tree via context menu

Fritz, Alain, thanks for the results.  I made a mistake by going by recent observation and not using the exact steps of comment 0.

see also bug 370324 comment 30

Comment 10

[ISHIKAWA, Chiaki]

I observe the same on linux version TB v3.0b4.

As of now, recent list is not useful since when I try to
manually distribute many articles to a handful of folders [in a somewhat
nested hierarchy]. I have to manually search for the destination
folder since recent list is not updated. If it is updated each time, it would
be very useful such operation.

Hope it gets fixed soon.

TIA

Comment 11

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

I /think/ I saw the same in SeaMonkey on, oh, let's say one of the three latest nightlies including this one:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8pre) Gecko/20091224 Lightning/1.0b2pre SeaMonkey/2.0.2pre - Build ID: 20091224000228

Comment 12

[Sandra Wald]

I am having same problem here with 3.1.2 on Windows XP Professional.

I will be waiting for fix so I can give to client/user.

sincerely,
Sandra

Comment 14

[Elmar.Knipp]

I am using Thunderbird 3.1.10 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110516 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10). And the bug still exists.

Comment 15

[David :Bienvenu]

this is fixed in TB 5.0 by the fix for bug 370324