Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: thunderbird
With Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 running under Ubuntu 8.04, I received a
message with a large, attached MS Word file. I saved the attachment in
my Windows XP "Documents" directory with no problems, then decided to
save the email as well, using Thunderbird's save as / file.
When I got back to Windows, the email, saved as an .html, refused to
open. "File not found" said Windows, although the name was right there
in the directory. Same with trying to copy, move, rename, or delete this
file. I even tried and old command line trick, using rmdir -S, to get
rid of the file, directory, and all - "directory not empty" was the
reply. Finally, I was able to get rid of it by restarting Ubuntu, going
to the Windows Documents directory, and simply deleting the file, which
deleted without further incident.
Another telling item about the saved file, was that it was listed by
Explorer as being only a couple of kilobytes long, whereas the same
email, saved in my Ubuntu home directory (where it saves and opens
without problems) is almost 200 kb, because of the included attachment.
It seems to me that Thunderbird file / save fails to complete the write
operation in writing to an NTFS partition. I've experience no problems
when copying or saving files to the NTFS partition using other tools,
such as Nautilus or the command-line cp command.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 27 11:28:34 2008
Dependencies:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
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:/opt/real/RealPlayer
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686
** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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Thunderbirds fails to write file to NTFS partition properly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302762
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