801315 - After address book import finishes, new addressbook is selected and shown as empty (contact list): Total contacts in <addressbookname>: 0

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Thunderbird Trunk "Daily" 20121013, Windows XP SP3 32 bit

After the address book import finishes, the new addressbook gets selected, but the contact list is shown as empty and the statusbar reads: "Total contacts in <addressbookname>: 0"

Somewhere between Thunderbird 3.1 and 5, the importer changed to selecting the imported/created addressbook, but fails showing the added contact. The user has to select a different addressbook and then the new one to show them.

Comment 1

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

Confirmed in TB 24 as well. And it also happens in Linux. (OS --> All).

Possible solutions:
1. Select the newly created address book AFTER the import process is over
2. Trigger a "refresh" on the current address book
3. Select default Personal Address Book and back to newly created address book

Comment 2

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

I've tracked down the problem.  It appears in version 3.3a4pre (build 2011-05-07). Files can be d/l at
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2011/05/2011-05-07-03-comm-miramar/

"About" gives:
  About Miramar
  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0a2)
  Gecko/20110507 Thunderbird/3.3a4pre

I used thunderbird-3.3a4pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe as testing exe.

In other words, import function didn't have this problem before this day (2011-05-07).  And of course, 3.1.11 (Linakai branch?) did not have this problem.

Comment 3

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Thank you for finding the regression range. This bug seems to be a regression from bug 422845 (Replace rdf-driven addressbook directory tree with js one), changeset is http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/d5ac0eb39141

Comment 4

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

You're welcome :)
Is there anything else I can do? Except real coding and debugging C++ because I'm still struggling to make my computer for compiling Mozilla.

Comment 5

[:aceman]

Still exists. I'll look at this while in the importer code.

Comment 6

[Colin Rimmer]

I have experienced this same problem recently in TB 52.9.1 . A most infuriating problem that makes the user suspect that there is a mismatch between the field specifications of their file and the ones that TB expects. TB fools you into believing something has gone wrong with the import by stating that the imported list is empty. Log out of TB and Log back in and it is apparent that the contacts were imported correctly but that TB was telling porkies.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Does this still happen with newer address book?

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

The import process is different now, and the UI.