74547 - Address Collection not working after upgrade

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[Shotaro Kamio]

on Mozilla 0.8.1, Address Collection is not working.
"Collected Address" is empty.
Of course, I enabled Address Collection in Preferences.

I installed Mozilla 0.8.1 after using Mozilla 0.7.
But I installed two Mozilla in different directories.

Comment 1

[Shotaro Kamio]

I tested on newly installed Mozilla 0.8.1 in another environment.
Then,  Address collection is working well.

So, this bug is emerging on the upgrade, probably.

Comment 2

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW.

Comment 3

[Jacek Piskozub]

Seen of WindowsMe. Marking All/All.

Comment 4

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

I think this is a big step back. The millions of Netscape 6 users who are
upgrading and find collection no longer works will be p**d off. (Not to belittle
Mozilla users, there just are less of them.)

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

removing nsbranch.  Esther, I know we've seen some problems with corruption, but
have we seen that upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1 prevent the collected address book
from working?

Comment 6

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Actually, I am seeing that address collection is not working at all in NS6.1b1,
clean install (I got a new machine). Is it working for somebody else?

Comment 7

[scottputterman]

I just tried this.  It worked for me, but the name didn't show up until after I
switched from Collected AB to a different folder and back again.

Comment 8

[chuang]

It is working on my Win2000 using build 2001062503.  I didn't have the problem
Putterman has.

Comment 9

[John Abd-El-Malek]

This is definitely a big bug!!!  I install mozilla in different directories
(mozilla and mozilla2), so that if I download a bad nightly I can switch back
using a different icon...  So I'm always using different directories..

Now my collected address list is empty, no matter which directory I use
(sometimes I used mozilla-0.8 etc), and it's not growing at all (of course I
have this feature enabled).  Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Perhaps Mozilla stores a directory path for these files?

Comment 10

[wkfx2003-bugzilla]

Is it fixed? I saw another bug talking about "collect should exclude some domains"

If the collect function itself does not work, how can they talk about
"collect should exclude some domains."

I am so eager to have this function resumed.. :)

Comment 11

[fenella]

I re-tested this bug using
Win32 (2001-08-06-06 trunk)
Mac (2001-08-06-08 trunk)
Linux (2001-08-06-06 trunk)
Address Collection is working.
Mark it worksforme. Please re-open if disagree

Comment 12

[fenella]

Verifying it.