Opera MailBug

[garcia]

I used Opera Mail for a short while on 12.15, and after I deleted the mail account to go back to checking it online, as the downloaded mail was just ending up as a duplicate the account still appeared in the mail tab, and if I clicked on it Opera crashed.
In the end I had to rebuild my profile again after a clean install, but I was wondering, why did it do it?
Ideas anyone?
And, since Opera Webkit will be on the same base as Chrome soon, can Opera use some Chrome web apps?
Yep, it's late Friday night after a long day at work, but any thoughts anyone?

Regards
Garcia

[JJ]

On Fri, 3 May 2013 15:36:30 -0700 (PDT), garcia wrote:
> I used Opera Mail for a short while on 12.15, and after I deleted the mail
> account to go back to checking it online, as the downloaded mail was just
> ending up as a duplicate the account still appeared in the mail tab, and
> if I clicked on it Opera crashed. In the end I had to rebuild my profile
> again after a clean install, but I was wondering, why did it do it?

Obviously, it's a bug. But no one did it on purpose.

> Ideas anyone?

Backup before deleting a mail/news account from now on?

> And, since Opera Webkit will be on the same base as Chrome soon,
> can Opera use some Chrome web apps?

The exact specifications of Opera-WekBit is still unknown. They only say it
would be using WebKit, V8, and part of Chromium.

[Robert Carnegie]

On Friday, 3 May 2013 23:36:30 UTC+1, garcia wrote:
> I used Opera Mail for a short while on 12.15, and after I deleted
> the mail account to go back to checking it online, as the downloaded
> mail was just ending up as a duplicate the account still appeared
> in the mail tab, and if I clicked on it Opera crashed.
>
> In the end I had to rebuild my profile again after a clean install,
> but I was wondering, why did it do it?
>
> Ideas anyone?

I haven't used Opera Mail recently - in the desktop program or
the web site - but it sounds as though when you deleted the account
information from Opera, part of the program didn't know that that
had been deleted, and showed it as though you hadn't deleted it.
But when you clicked on it, the program tried to use the data that
was deleted, and for that reason, it crashed. If you then couldn't
run Opera until you installed it again... that is quite bad.

Perhaps Opera the company would like you to report the bug, particularly
if you still have files from your broken Opera that they could examine.
Then they can stop it happening in another case.

The settings of Opera are mostly held in text files with names
such as "filename.ini". It's possible to correct problems
my manually making changes to these files - while Opera isn't
running. On the other hand, it's also possible to create
problems that way that are very difficult to solve - although
keeping a backup copy of a file when you change it, and
copying from the backup to the working file, should work -
again while Opera isn't running.

But maybe you know all of that already.