586881 - can't delete local folder

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[masa.bs.email]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b3) Gecko/20100805 Firefox/4.0b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2

I have an obsolete folder in Local Folders and it is empty. When I choose delete from to pop up menu, software asks confirmation and when I click Delete Folder button from confirmation dialog, I get an error message saying: "A folder with that name already exist. Please enter a different name."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Highlight or right-click obsolete folder from Local Folders
2.Choose Delete from the pop up menu
3.Confirm Delete when asked


Expected Results:  
To get that folder removed/deleted

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

What do you see in Tools -> Error console ?

How does those folder look on disk ? (look into %APPDATA% to find your profile)

Comment 2

[masa.bs.email]

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80550013 [nsIMsgFolder.deleteSubFolders]"  nsresult: "0x80550013 (<unknown>)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://messenger/content/folderPane.js :: ftc_delete :: line 2194"  data: no]

FILE	Eudora Import	0(size)
FILE	Eudora Import.msf	2,150(size)

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

If you remove the files on disk your issue should go away.

Comment 4

[masa.bs.email]

It did, cheers.