66817 - compacting a folder deletes folder file

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Oliver Klee]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010125
BuildID:    2001012504

If I compact a folder, Mozilla sometimes compacts it very radically by deleting
the folder!

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Back up your Mozilla profile.
2. Select a folder (I'll attach the folder + msf file I used).
3. Compact the folder.
4. Repeat 2.-3. until you get an error #80520012 on selecting the folder (you
might have to try a few times).
5. Take a seat, hold fast.
6. Have a look at your profile directory ...

Actual Results:
1. Error #80520012, and
2. The file for the mail folder is gone from my disk. A new .msf file is created.

Expected Results:
1. No errors, and
2. No dataloss.

Comment 1

[Oliver Klee]

Attachment: mail folder

Comment 2

[Oliver Klee]

Attachment: corresponding .msf file

Comment 3

[Steve Chapel]

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

taking from scott.

Comment 5

[Oliver Klee]

Adding dataloss keyword.

Comment 6

[Andreas Premstaller]

Maybe this is related:
I tried compacting a POP-folder, folder size 5672960 bytes, folder.msf 8435
bytes, nothing happened after this operation, file sizes remained the same, but
I got a new nstmp and nstmp.msf-file in the mail folder, with nstmp 5647734
bytes, and nstmp.msf 7672 bytes. nstmp-files were not deleted upon regular exit
of the application.
Build: 2001020704, Win2000

Comment 7

[Navin Gupta]

If this has to do with "nstmp" file this may have been fixed. See #68875

Comment 8

[Sheela Ravindran]

Navin,
fyi -Bug 68875 has been reopened.  

Comment 9

[Sheela Ravindran]

Navin,
This bug was reopened because of bug 68875.  Now that 68875 is fixed this bug 
also should be marked fixed. I have not see folder getting deleted while 
compacting folder on 2001-03-29-06. 

Comment 10

[David :Bienvenu]

ok, marking fixed.

Comment 11

[Sheela Ravindran]

verified this bug while verifying bug 68875.