email folders moving on their own, and won't move back.
System is Win8.1, Thunderbird 38.1.0. I use it to connect to 2 gmail accounts, I download the mail to my laptop and use Thunderbird's ability to create folders and subfolders (stupid gmail, it's brain dead they want to use tags instead of folders, but I digress). It's been working fine for 7-8 years now.
I have an account snotnose@gmail.com. It has a subfolder Foo. Foo has subfolders A, B, and C. Foo has no messages, it just holds subfolders.
On Aug 8, 2015 I had a message in my inbox that should have been filtered to Foo/A. I tried to manually move it, it wouldn't move. I went into Foo/A/properties and selected 'repair folder'. Then I could move the message from inbox to Foo/A.
I just noticed that now my entire Foo folder is under snotnose@gmail.com/Drafts. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? I can't move it back. In fact, I can't move any folders. What gives? I've repaired every folder I can find, no joy.
Under Foo/A/Properties there is a Location field that looks to be editable. But I can't edit it.
I get an error message that doesn't stay up long enough to fully parse, but it's saying something like 'no such folder'. Be really nice if error messages either had an 'x' to close the window, or if they got logged somewhere obvious.
BTW, snotnose@gmail.com is just an example, I don't actually own it.
Opaite Mbohovái (5)
Tools menu > error console. CLear it and then try to get most error messages
Use the activity manager also on the tools menu to see what is happening with IMAP account. That should cover the errors the error console misses.
With some details perhaps we can work it out.
Looks like Sunday was a fun day. From Activity Manager:
Indexed 72 messages in A
Indexed 52 messages in B
Deleted folder Foo
Deleted folder A
Deleted folder B
Deleted folder C
On Monday I have
Indexed 34 messages in Foo
(I'd forgotten I saved generic messages in Foo, so Foo had both mail and subfolders).
finally, when I saw the error yesterday and tried to fix it, I have numerous messages along the lines of :
The current operation on 'A' did not succeed. The mail server for account snotnose@gmail.com responded: NONEXISTENT] Invalid folder: Drafts/Foo/A (Failure)
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The error console seems to have blown up as of 8/9/15, full of messages like:
Timestamp: 8/9/2015 6:21:30 AM Error: 2015-08-09 06:21:30 gloda.index_msg ERROR Exception while attempting to mark message with gloda state afterdb commit [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsIMsgDBHdr.getUint32Property]" nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)" location: "JS frame :: resource:///modules/gloda/index_msg.js :: PendingCommitTracker_commitCallback :: line 160" data: no]
Source File: resource:///modules/gloda/log4moz.js Line: 693
There are a lot of those, followed by
uncaught exception 2147746065
NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE: Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR-XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)nslJSCID.getService] resource://gre/modules/PlacesUtils.jsm
TypeError:this.bookmarks is undefined resource:/gre/modules/PlacesUtils.jsm
Uncaught exception: 2147746065 (got a bunch of those, maybe 20)
On 8/10 I get DEPRECIATION WARNING: Encolding to non-UTF-8 values is obsolete You may find more details at http://bugilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cg?id=790855 resource://gre/components/mime/JSComponents.js 438 MimeConverter.prototype.encodeMimePartIIStr_UTF8 null 0 null
Then several more uncaught exception 2147746065,
On 8/13/2015 I got: NS_ERROR_FAILURE: Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)]nslMsgFolder.deleteSubFolders]
followed by 5 more uncaught exception 2147746065
Forgive any typos, I can't cut paste these and typed them in by hand.
Just upgraded to 38.2.0. Now my Foo folder is under Inbox, not Drafts. Still not where I want it, but better.
Keep in mind I'm not moving this folder, it's moving on it's own.
So, after a week of no replies, I can assume it's a bug somewhere in either gmail or thunderbird (or Windows, or POP, or IMAP, or some Ashley Madison hacker). I have to manually recreate my folders, move existing mail to those new folders, and update my filters.
All the while wondering how my folders moved themselves in the first place. And the second place, cuz I didn't move them to under inbox on my own. Then wondering when they'll move to trash with no input from me.
Those error messages I posted? I have no clue what they mean. Except the uncaught exceptions, in my experience those tend to be bad. Google says the one I'm hitting has been around for years but it's never been fixed. Can you at least catch the exception on some stupid font issue to say "whoops, something bad happened but don't worry, we know about it and can safely ignore it".
Moambuepyre Snotnose2 rupive
The only one that could be remotely related is "On 8/13/2015 I got: NS_ERROR_FAILURE: Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)]nslMsgFolder.deleteSubFolders]"
Did you solve your problem?