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Title: backup mail in cdrom is unreadable Status in Mozilla Thunderbird: Confirmed Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird 1) Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron 2) Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 3) What you expected to happen: To Final message 4) What happened instead Thunderbird need the MAIL folder writable, then if I copy my old mail (burn backup) in a CDROM is impossible read it. I never delete my messages, a day in year I doing a backup: 1) Close thunderbird 2) burn to CDROM or DVD-ROM the all folders in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/XXXXXXX.default/Mail/AAA.com 3) Open thunderbird 4) I remove all messages in my folders since Thunderbird. 5) I can receive new messages and all OK, but... 6) I create a new account in my Thunderbird, and I change the folder mail to /media/cdrom/..../Mail/AAA.com 7) Apply changes, close Thunderbird, open thunderbird but the folder is blank If I copy the Mail folder to other hard-disk place, and change all permission to Read-Write, then all is OK and I can view messages. The problem is that never I can to do a backup, I need have all messages in hard-disk if I want read it. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Aug 17 17:19:06 2009 Dependencies: DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list] PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: thunderbird Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/414890/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp