988792 - show which folder on "the operation failed because another operation is using the folder"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Ruben]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140317233339



Actual results:

often in several ocasions some tasks cannot be done because: 

"the operation failed because another operation is using the folder"

But you never know which folder and if you have to worry or not.


Expected results:

The message should contain the folder and account like:

"the operation failed because another operation is using the folder [e-mail]->Drafts"

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Can you give an example of an action where you have seen "the operation failed ..."

Comment 2

[Ruben]

I had it several times already. Am not certain when it happened, but I think it sometimes happens, When you press "sync/work offline" and while you do that in the background, you try to compress a folder. (I have many large imap folders in my thunderbird, so it takes some time to sync every folder)

The reason of this bug is, that I do not know which folder TB means, when it hapens, otherwise I would be able to tell, when.

Can't you just look through the sourcecode, where this message is generated and add a folder name there?

Comment 3

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Following error is now consistently reproducible. See Bug 1110577. Thanks a lot to Bug 1106225 :-)
>  !  The operation failed because another operation is using the folder.
>      Please wait for that operation to finish and then try again.
Needless to say, "Which account's which folder" is usully needed in error message in any environment.
Confiring, with setting Severity=Enhancement.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Seems sad that we don't identify the folder. Might need account name + folder name? https://searchfox.org/comm-central/search?q=operationFailedFolderBusy&redirect=false

Can someone put up a patch?

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Magnus, is this possible to do?
It has implications for https://mzl.la/3C8plRO https://mzl.la/3tIY3jm (better query)

Comment 7

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

It would, https://searchfox.org/comm-central/search?q=operationFailedFolderBusy&path=&case=false&regexp=false

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Hartmut,
Possible for you to tackle this?

Comment 9

[Hartmut Welpmann [:welpy-cw]]

Apparently this has already been implemented in bug 1709165. However, I suggest showing the (now easily available) full path instead of just the name of the folder.

Comment 10

[Hartmut Welpmann [:welpy-cw]]

Attachment: Bug 988792 - Show full path in folder alert messages. r=mkmelin

Comment 11

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/9c9d342d1e44
Show full path in folder alert messages. r=mkmelin