On 14-12-28 07:01 PM, David Collier-Brown wrote:
On 12/28/2014 04:23 PM, Stephen wrote:
I am running Ubuntu 12.04.
I had /home on its own drive and that drive was getting SMART warnings.
I backed my data up, replaced the drive, restored, booted and everything seems OK except my Thunderbird filters.
When a message comes in that has a rule to filter to a different folder Thunderbird is now raising an error: "message could not be filtered to folder because writing to folder failed". There was a bug but it is being reported as repaired on 2014-10-14. And the only platform mentioned is Windows.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=931303
Now, the messages are going to my Inbox just fine, and I can manually drag them and drop them into the folder that I want them filtered to. So I conclude that this is not a permission problem.
Best I could find with Google is that Mozilla suggests that the way to go is to create a profile and move all my existing data to the new profile.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Thunderbird
This seems like a Royal pain the kester.
Before I undertake this this, I thought I solicit ideas as to possible solutions that are less onerous.
Thanks
Try writing a new filter, and see it it works. A good test one is "match everything, copy to a new folder". If it works, you can edit or recreate the existing filters.
--dave
That did the trick. Thank you! -- Stephen