99766 - Emptying trash while it is refreshing the nb of msg in it causes trash to disappear from front end

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

I haven't been able to reproduce this, but I had a trash can with over 3 megs in
it, over 1000 messages and for some reason, it once started to refresh the
number of unread/total messages. Since I wanted to delete these messages anyway,
I didn't wait, right-clicked the trash can and selected "empty trash".

Result: the trash was _not_ emptied (the 3 megs file still existed) but the
trash can disappeared in the mail front end.

Workaround: Go to your profile, delete the trash file and restart mozilla.

Comment 1

[Greindl Jacques]

Get the same problem with mozilla 1.2b. I try to install the lastest nightly build 
( Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021030 ), but
I got the same problem. I don't know how, but the trash re-appear once; I try to
empty it again, and it re-disappear...
(WIN2000 SP3 - MOZILLA 1.2b release & nightly build 02103008)

Comment 2

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

Greindl Jacques, was the size or the number of messages similar to my case? Did
you try to empty the trash _while_ it was re-counting the messages in it?

Comment 3

[Greindl Jacques]

I don't exactly now the number of message, but there was many ( 1000 or more I
think ). And it was still counting while I click on "Empty trash"... Same as you so.
But I applied your workaround, and now I don't have any problem.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Ricky, was folder imap, pop, or local?

Comment 5

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

By that time, it must have been local. I think I didn't have IMAP back then yet. I haven't been able to reproduce it anyway.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM per comment 5