(In reply to Thomas D. (currently busy elsewhere; needinfo?me) from comment #131) > The only scenario where this might fail are extra long nested folder names > at the limit, where we might fail to create the tmp target folder if the tmp > path gets too long or such. To avoid this, you could just try to rename to fo1, fo2, ... foa, fob, ... until success. tmp may be already in use.
> because even some servers don't accept changing capitalization only, so we'd > elegantly trick those. +1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106737 Title: Renaming folder to same name but different case not allowed Status in Mozilla Thunderbird: Confirmed Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird In 1.5.0.10, renaming the folder "foo" to "foO", "fOo" or "Foo" isn't allowed; the OK button isn't clickable upon typing the new name. However, this can be worked around by renaming the folder "foo" to "bar" first, and then renaming "bar" to "foO". To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/106737/+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
