Duplicate folder handling in Thunderbird Trash
Found an interesting behavior in Thunderbird 2 Beta 2.
Steps to reproduce:
1) create folder "test" (subfolder or folder does not matter)
2) delete "test"
3) create folder "test" (anywhere in the folder heirarchy)
4) delete "test"
The second delete will fail with an error message that says "Folder already exists". It took me a couple of tries to realize that the Trash folder already had the "test" folder from step 2. So step 4 is not able to move another folder with the same name into Trash. For step 4 to succeed you have to empty trash first.
Should the Trash folder get special handling for duplicate folder names?
Posted at 12:58PM Feb 16, 2007 by gowri in Tools |
Adding Google Calendar Entries from Thunderbird
For the past many months I have been using Google Calendar as my default calendar. I stopped using the internal Calendar Sever because of the time it took to create and maintain entries. Most times I find the need to create calendar entries when reading email (meeting requests and so on). If it takes too long to create an entry I wont do it on the spot and that means I need to come back to that email all over again (which I usually forget!). Google Calendar's "Quick Add" is awesome. Typing "Meet with xyz at 11am on thursday" is simpler than typing and clicking away at six or seven fields in a webform.
The problem I still have with this setup is I use Thunderbird for my email and to create a calendar event I have to switch to my browser, go to the calendar tab and add the entry. That is a context switch I dont want! What I would really like is a Thunderbird extension that allows me to create a Google Calendar entry while reading a mail (press a key, get a small popup, type your calendar entry, enter and you are back to the mail). With Google Calendar api it should certainly be possible. I wonder if someone has already done this?
Posted at 11:22PM Feb 15, 2007 by gowri in Tools | Comments[1]