[ I don't think it is a samba trouble, but indeed some clue... ]
A user of mine have a rather complex Thunderbird local folder email
archive, in a network folder (P:\Mail), with CSC enabled (it is a
portable system).
Rather frequently (at least once a week) in the share a 'disk folder' (a
directory) with the same name of the 'file' of the email folder get
created.
Because (AFAI've understood) windows does not support files and
directory with the same name in a dir, windows see only the directory.
The result: the mailbox desappear from thunderbird (or, worster, it is
still here but is empty).
Solution: close thunderbird, delete (from windows explorer) the file
folder (directory) that is empty, the mailbox folder (the file) reappear,
start thunderbird, all OK.
It is a bt annoying... and it is not clear if this is a Thunderbird,
CSC or samba quastion...
Thanks.
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Hi, In my experience Thunderbird does not work on a directory that has CSC/offline files in use without major problems. We use shares that have no offline caching in use for Thunderbird profiles, and those work only when the user is online. Whent that is not an option: put your profile on %localappdata% with no synchronization at all. As long as you access mail only via imap (no pop3) and you have no local folders, that profile serves only as a cache and you don't lose anything when it gets lost. It only takes a bit more time to update the cache when you go online. Regards, Norbert On 12.11.2020 11:09, Marco Gaiarin via samba wrote:> [ I don't think it is a samba trouble, but indeed some clue... ] > > A user of mine have a rather complex Thunderbird local folder email > archive, in a network folder (P:\Mail), with CSC enabled (it is a > portable system). > > Rather frequently (at least once a week) in the share a 'disk folder' (a > directory) with the same name of the 'file' of the email folder get created. > Because (AFAI've understood) windows does not support files and > directory with the same name in a dir, windows see only the directory. > > > The result: the mailbox desappear from thunderbird (or, worster, it is > still here but is empty). > > Solution: close thunderbird, delete (from windows explorer) the file > folder (directory) that is empty, the mailbox folder (the file) reappear, > start thunderbird, all OK. > > > It is a bt annoying... and it is not clear if this is a Thunderbird, > CSC or samba quastion... > > > Thanks. >
Mandi! Norbert Hanke via samba In chel di` si favelave...> In my experience Thunderbird does not work on a directory that has > CSC/offline files in use without major problems.I use extensively Thunderbird with local folders in a CSC-enabled share, and apart some sporadic locking troubles, that auto-cleanup on a reboot, all works as expected. A simpler question: there's some way for Samba to privilege files against folder in name clashes? Eg, seems to me that actually if a file and a filder with the same name get created, samba prefere the folder. Can i instruct samba to prefere the file? Thanks. -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia'' http://www.lanostrafamiglia.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bont?, 7 - 33078 - San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) marco.gaiarin(at)lanostrafamiglia.it t +39-0434-842711 f +39-0434-842797 Dona il 5 PER MILLE a LA NOSTRA FAMIGLIA! http://www.lanostrafamiglia.it/index.php/it/sostienici/5x1000 (cf 00307430132, categoria ONLUS oppure RICERCA SANITARIA)