767846 - Draft folder shows (1) but is empty. Cannot delete it.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[cjcollinsLMT]

Attachment: Screen shot 2012-06-24 at 7.57.41 PM.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Build ID: 20120420145725

Steps to reproduce:

I tried to delete it.


Actual results:

the (1) does not go away.


Expected results:

The (1) should disappear because the folder is empty.

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to cjcollinsLMT from comment #0)
Is that folder marked as marked as "Favorite folder"? If yes, just un-tick it.

Comment 2

[cjcollinsLMT]

The folder is Drafts, not Favorite.  See screenshot I attached with first report.

Comment 3

[cjcollinsLMT]

I access my email using Thunderbird 14.0

Comment 4

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

What happens when you right click on the folder and choose properties and then repair folder ?

Comment 5

[cjcollinsLMT]

I tried those steps; nothing changed.

Comment 6

[cjcollinsLMT]

I repeated those steps 4 more times and suddenly the draft email appeared.  At that time I was able to successfully delete it.  Thanks for the fix!

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

this was never a "bug" :)  hence, INVALID

Comment 8

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to cjcollinsLMT from comment #6)
> I repeated those steps 4 more times and suddenly the draft email appeared. 
> At that time I was able to successfully delete it.  Thanks for the fix!

Recently, I had the same problem in Thunderbird. The Drafts folder (in IMAP server) shows an unread number (3) but no unread messages appear in the list. Unbscribing then subscribing again to the Drafts folder solves the issue.

Comment 9

[cjcollinsLMT]

Please explain what this means:

Unbscribing then subscribing again to the Drafts folder solves the issue.

Comment 10

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to cjcollinsLMT from comment #9)
> Please explain what this means:
> 
> Unbscribing then subscribing again to the Drafts folder solves the issue.

Right-click the IMAP server ➔ Subscribe ➔ untick the Drafts folder ➔ OK.

Then

Right-click the IMAP server ➔ Subscribe ➔ tick the Drafts folder ➔ OK.