90991 - Flush newsrc to disk to avoid dataloss during crashes or quits

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

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quick crash after subscribing can cause recently subscribed groups to be lost.

to reproduce:  subscribe to a group, and quickly force a crash (or kill the 
app.)

start back up, the newsgroup is not subscribed.

after subscribe changes, I need to force flush the newsrc to disk.

Comment 1

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*** Bug 94075 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Arun Prasannan (polar)]

This bug is being marked EXPIRED as it has seen no activity in a very long time.

If you think that the issue reported might still be relevant, please test with a recent release of SeaMonkey and if the problem persists feel free to re-open the report. Thank you.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Bulk reopening incorrectly expired bugs - no activity does not constitute no bug - these need proper checking.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

another dataloss.  Thought I saw this mentioned somewhere else, but I'm not find an open bug

Comment 5

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

In reading the subscribe UI code, subscribableServer.commitSubscribeChanges is called during the OK button callback. Committing the changes does flush the newsrc, so someone fixed this at some point in the intervening 8 years.