[Bug 109059] Re: The content of a folder has disappeared

[Karoly Molnar]

Hi,

This has actually happened to me as well, the content of one folder and all its subfolders disappeared. Hopefully I could find the reason. The problem was that the folder had a "." in its name. The name was "Open Source Inc." so I had two files:
Open Source Inc.
Open Source Inc..msf
And one folder:
Open Source Inc..sbd

After the upgrade two new files were created:
Open Source Incc6bfcd54
Open Source Incc6bfcd54.msf

This lead me to a conclusion that the old thunderbird handled the "." as
a dot and the new one replaced the "." with c6bfcd54.

The solution was pretty simple, removing the "." in the old file names
and deleting the newly created files worked like a charm.

Not a big deal, but still a bug ;-)

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The content of a folder has disappeared
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