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

[Stephen]

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