Ubuntu Thunderbird Problem After Replacing Drive With /home
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 -- Stephen
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 -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain
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
On 14-12-28 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.
A proper backup system should not have left you with issues in your Thunderbird filters unless the recovery process copied the Thunderbird files on to a machine with a slightly different path to the directory containing the mail files. Running in to a case where something didn't work right (in this case the filters) makes you take a second look at the backup procedure to make sure something wasn't missed in the process. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |"Nerds make the shiny things that distract Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | the mouth-breathers, and that's why we're | powerful!" #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick
On 2015-01-09 03:39 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote:
A proper backup system should not have left you with issues in your Thunderbird filters unless the recovery process copied the Thunderbird files on to a machine with a slightly different path to the directory containing the mail files.
There's also a chance that the restore went fine, but Thunderbird isn't looking at the right profile, so doesn't see it. Profiles are yet another annoying feature of Thunderbird (and still I use it; partly because everything else has more or different annoyances). Maybe there's something in this page about profiles that might fix the issue: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird cheers, Stewart
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