Control: forwared -1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1482248

Am 22.09.18 um 17:10 schrieb Torbjörn Andersson:
> I finally managed to get rid of the duplicate local folders by manually 
> removing the offending files in my "Local Mail" folder for it (making 
> sure to keep the ones for the folder that actually had the mails in it). 
> That seems to have fixed the startup crash for me.
> 
> My only theory - and this is just wild speculation - is that this mail 
> folder dated from some point before I switched to an UTF-8 locale, so it 
> still used Latin-1 as character encoding for the file name. The old 
> Thunderbird accepted this, at least as long as I didn't try to rename 
> the folder. Apparently the new Thunderbird did not.
> 
> That's as far as I'm going to pursue this. I wish Thunderbird would 
> handle this case more gracefully, but maybe it will at least help 
> someone else with the same problem.

I guess this is
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1482248

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Regards
Carsten Schoenert

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