folder cannot be compacted because another operation is in progress

[B00ze/Empire]

Good day.

Twice now, TB decided it was time to compact folders and gave me several
pop-ups while doing so, with the error "folder cannot be compacted
because another operation is in progress" (all for newsgroup folders).
I'd like to test further and figure out why I get this, but: 1- The
global "FILE menu -> Compact Folders" does not work for me, it generates
this error (see below) and 2- Right-clicking on a newsgroup folder
doesn't show a compact choice...

Global compact error ->

Thu Sep 18 2014 20:36:46
Error: An error occurred executing the cmd_compactFolder command:
[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004001
(NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED) [nsIMsgFolder.compactAll]" nsresult:
"0x80004001 (NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED)" location: "JS frame ::
chrome://messenger/content/folderPane.js ::
ftc_compactAllFoldersOfAccount :: line 2210" data: no]
Source file: chrome://global/content/globalOverlay.js
Line: 95

Are you guys able to start compacting manually from the FILE menu? AND,
if compacting does not exist for newsgroup folders, then why am I
getting the "cannot compact busy" error on several newsgroup folders
when compacting starts?

Thank you.
Best Regards,

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[B00ze/Empire]

No one? Can someone at least try the "Compact Folders" entry in the FILE
menu and tell me if they get the same error I do in the console
(NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED)? This might require
"javascript.options.showInConsole" to be true, I'm not sure...

Thank you.
Best Regards,

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[Trane Francks]

Sorry, mate. Not really helpful here: WFM.

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[B00ze/Empire]

On 2014-09-19 23:23, Trane Francks <tr...@tranefrancks.com> wrote:
>> No one? Can someone at least try the "Compact Folders" entry in the FILE
>> menu and tell me if they get the same error I do in the console
>> (NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED)? This might require
>> "javascript.options.showInConsole" to be true, I'm not sure...
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Best Regards,
>>
> Sorry, mate. Not really helpful here: WFM.

Arr! Thanks for the info. I'd tried in safemode (no change, so it's not
an extension) but I hadn't tried under other profiles. Since it Worked
For You I tried other things. Turns out no issue under a test profile I
have which is a copy of my current profile but about a month old. So
something screwed-up lately. I'm going to have to recreate my profile (I
might try using the test profile as a base, but it's annoying, I test
all kinds of things in there, it's full of junk). This will be sooo
painful :-(

Best Regards,

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[Matt]

On 20/09/2014 1:59 PM, B00ze/Empire wrote:
> On 2014-09-19 23:23, Trane Francks <tr...@tranefrancks.com> wrote:
>>> No one? Can someone at least try the "Compact Folders" entry in the FILE
>>> menu and tell me if they get the same error I do in the console
>>> (NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED)? This might require
>>> "javascript.options.showInConsole" to be true, I'm not sure...
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>> Sorry, mate. Not really helpful here: WFM.
>
> Arr! Thanks for the info. I'd tried in safemode (no change, so it's not
> an extension) but I hadn't tried under other profiles. Since it Worked
> For You I tried other things. Turns out no issue under a test profile I
> have which is a copy of my current profile but about a month old. So
> something screwed-up lately. I'm going to have to recreate my profile (I
> might try using the test profile as a base, but it's annoying, I test
> all kinds of things in there, it's full of junk). This will be sooo
> painful :-(
>
> Best Regards,
>

A good place to start with the error "folder cannot be compacted because
another operation is in progress" is to restart the operating system in
safe mode. By far the most common cause is anti virus programs locking
the file as soon as Thunderbird tries to open it so they can do a scan.
Not an issue usually with a new profile while all the files are small,
but once the files grow the 10 minutes it takes an anti virus program
to scan a 4Gb file starts to mess with internal timing and you start to
see errors.

Anti virus is however not alone. Streaming backup can be a real issue,
especially when things like time machine are set to backup all files
when they change, so each change kicks of a long and slow backup
process to mycloud over a relatively slow internet connection.

Basically your looking for an application or service that is competing
with Thunderbird for access. Often these can be identified as processes
that consume CPU cycles in large quantities at the same time or just
before the error message pops up.

Matt

[Poutnik]

Dne 20.9.2014 v 10:28 Matt napsal(a):

>>
> A good place to start with the error "folder cannot be compacted because
> another operation is in progress" is to restart the operating system in
> safe mode. By far the most common cause is anti virus programs locking
> the file as soon as Thunderbird tries to open it so they can do a scan.

What about TB competing with TB addons ?

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[B00ze/Empire]

On 2014-09-20 00:29, B00ze/Empire <B00...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 2014-09-19 23:23, Trane Francks <tr...@tranefrancks.com> wrote:
>>> No one? Can someone at least try the "Compact Folders" entry in the
>>> FILE
>>> menu and tell me if they get the same error I do in the console
>>> (NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED)? This might require
>>> "javascript.options.showInConsole" to be true, I'm not sure...
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>> Sorry, mate. Not really helpful here: WFM.
>
> Arr! Thanks for the info. I'd tried in safemode (no change, so it's
> not an extension) but I hadn't tried under other profiles. Since it
> Worked For You I tried other things. Turns out no issue under a test
> profile I have which is a copy of my current profile but about a month
> old. So something screwed-up lately. I'm going to have to recreate my
> profile (I might try using the test profile as a base, but it's
> annoying, I test all kinds of things in there, it's full of junk).
> This will be sooo painful :-(
>
> Best Regards,
>

Duh duh duh, I had always assumed that "MENU:FILE->Compact" was a
_global_ command! Turns out it's not, it acts on the account currently
selected in the folder pane. So of course, I was getting
NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED because when I was testing that command, a NEWS
folder had been selected. Took me an hour to pin that down, lol...

Thanks for the WFM!

Best Regards,

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[B00ze/Empire]

Thanks, I have now marked my entire mail profile folder as "no scan" in
my Anti Virus. We'll see what happens next time auto-compact kicks in.
The strange this is, if I recall correctly I was getting "folder cannot
be compacted busy" errors on NEWS folders, which don't compact anyway!

I'll keep an eye out and report back if indeed I get this on news
folders next time it does it.

Thank you.

Best Regards,

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[Trane Francks]

When I'm reading this newsgroup, selecting File | Compact results in no
error whatsoever. WFM.

[jonathon]

On 9/22/2014 6:03 PM, B00ze/Empire wrote:

> Duh duh duh, I had always assumed that "MENU:FILE->Compact" was a
> _global_ command! Turns out it's not, it acts on the account currently

It _used_ to be a global command.

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[B00ze/Empire]

On 2014-09-18 20:45, B00ze/Empire <B00...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Good day.
>
> Twice now, TB decided it was time to compact folders and gave me several
> pop-ups while doing so, with the error "folder cannot be compacted
> because another operation is in progress" (all for newsgroup folders).

Well, there it is again, I got the "cannot compact another op in
progress" error when "Auto" compacting kicked in, and I got the pop-up 4
times for 4 NEWSGROUP folders, which do not compact anyway! Anyone else
ever got this? It might be an extension but I'm not really willing to
run in safeMode for 2 weeks while I wait for compacting to kick in...

Thank you.
Best Regards,

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[Wayne]

On 10/2/2014 9:01 PM, B00ze/Empire wrote:
> I'm not really willing to run in safeMode for 2 weeks while I wait for compacting to kick in...
>
> Thank you.
> Best Regards,

Set compact threshold low, create some large emails, delete them ...

[B00ze/Empire]

Good day Wayne.

Followed your suggestion, 1MB trigger (first with all AddOns enabled, to
see if I could replicate the issue). Compacting did not start
immediately. Waited 10m, nada. Quit/Restarted, nada. Clicked on a
newsgroup, bingo, compacting started and of course, NO pop-up
whatsoever, arrrg. Tried again, once again needed to Quit/Restart and
then click on a newsgroup, and once again, no pop-up when compacting.
Frustrating; need to be able to reproduce... :-(

Meanwhile, opened https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1077759
for the FILE MENU entry which no longer compacts ALL folders but only
selected account (and fails with an error in the console if a news
account is selected at the time).

Thank you.
Best Regards,

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