558556 - Creating bookmark sub-folder renames an unrelated sub-folder

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 477687

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Jon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Having created a new bookmark, a bookmark sub-folder was renamed.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
I had a new website to bookmark, for example, www.customs.gov.cn/publish/portal0, and I:

1. Selected Bookmarks, and, browsed to a sub folder, in my case, 'archived > F to J'
2. Created a new sub-folder named 'Globetrotter (by country)', and, bookmarked my new link within this sub-folder.

The problem is that another unrelated sub-folder was renamed to the sub-folder created in step 2 above i.e. 'Globetrotter (by country)'.  

The original sub-folder path was 'archived > K to P' (sub-folder 'K to P' was renamed incorrectly.

The user thinks that somehow s/he might have overwritten the sub-folder, however, in this case, renaming should be confirmed, because it is too easy to overwrite a sub-folder when the user has over 2000 bookmarks organized hierarchicially.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

was your bookmarks sidebar open in the meantime?

Does this happen in safe mode too? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode

if both of the above don't help please try this:
Open error console, in the eval field paste the following code and click Eval:
Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/PlacesDBUtils.jsm");PlacesDBUtils.checkAndFixDatabase();

wait some second, then copy paste the log from the console here.

Comment 2

[Martin Wills]

I had this same problem. Bookmarked a page, scrolled to my Tech sub-folder and hit 'Create new folder'. Folder was created under Tech and the bookmark placed there correctly but the following folder in my tree, named Travel, had its name changed to the same as the new sub-folder I'd just created.
Since there is no rename capability under Organize Folders, had to create a new Travel folder and copy everything in.
This has happened twice in three days and I suspect is quite repeatable.
I'm at 3.6.3 and here's the last paragraph from the About box:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Comment 3

[Anthony DiSante]

This appears to be a duplicate of Bug 477687.