Bug 132548

Summary:	Lost subfolders properties after renaming parent folder
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Michel D'HOOGE <michel.dhooge>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	bjoern
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.9.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Michel D'HOOGE 2006-08-17 14:12:34 UTC

Version:           1.9.4 (using KDE 3.5.4, Kubuntu Package 4:3.5.4-0ubuntu2~dapper1 )
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.15-26-686

After having renamed the parent folder of all my mailing lists, the properties, ML configuration, icons and expiring delays (in a word: 
everything) of all the contained subfolders were lost. Note that it is not a transient bug because I can reproduce this behaviour each time I rename that folder.

If I quit KMail just after the renaming, my kmailrc contains good, filled-in entries with the old folder name (like [Folder-.Name with space.directory/kdepim]) and new empty entries with the new folder name (like [Folder-.Lists.directory/kdepim]). After starting and quitting KMail once more, all the good,old entries have been removed.

I also noticed that if an identity is set to save sent mails in the renamed folder, the path is not updated.

Comment 1 Michel D'HOOGE 2006-08-17 14:14:54 UTC

Maybe related to bug 113266

Comment 2 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-29 22:02:13 UTC

Looks as if this has been work arounded. I cannot rename a folder in KDE 4.3