[GTALUG] Ubuntu Thunderbird Problem After Replacing Drive With /home

[David Collier-Brown]

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

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David Collier-Brown,         | Always do right. This will gratify
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