134634 - Cannot "save all" - save button inactive in default directory (unless you select another one)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 142482

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[David Hagood]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020326
BuildID:    

Given a mail message with multiple attachments, selecting Save All doesn't work
- the file selector dialog marks the Save button as inactive until a file name
is entered, but you cannot enter a file name for a Save All, therefor catch-22.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. get a message with multiple attachments
2. In the attachment pane, select Save All


Actual Results:  Save all dialog has the Save button disabled.

Expected Results:  Should be able to select a directory and press Save

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

with Linux build 20020401, the button is "Select".  If I click on a directory
and then hit select, it works.

worksforme.

Comment 2

[David Hagood]

Attachment: Screen shot of "Save all" file selector, showing inactive Select button

Here's a screen shot of the Save All dialog, showing the Select button as being
inactive.

Comment 3

[Laurent Julliard]

Andrew,

I think the reason why you said "worksforme" is because of a misunderstanding in
the bug description. What happens is that when you select "Save All" in the
email attachement box, the File Selector pops up and the Select button is
de-activated. 

As you rightly said if you click on a directory name, the Select button goes to
"selectable". But the problem is when you want to save in the very directory the
File Selector opens on. In this case there is nothing to select because you are
already in the right place.

The work around is to go one level up and then select the directory you where
in. And of course this workaround would not work if you are in "/".

The real fix here is to make the "Select" button selectable when the File
Selector pops up as opposed to what happen when you select to an individual file.

Hope this helps.

Comment 4

[Christian Kemmer]

Another workaround using Linux, Build 2003030308 works as follows:

1. Select "Save all"
2. Enter "./" as directory name. This works

BUT: Saving the next time using "save all", "./" is already entered as directory
name, but the select-button is inactive again. Now, you have to enter another
"./" resulting in "././" to save all files.

BUT: Saving the next time using "save all", "././" ... resulting in "./././" to
save all files.

and so on, never ending story. But it is a workaround.

Comment 5

[Sven Krohlas]

Still a problem in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040117

Comment 6

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 198366 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Jan]

I wonder why this prob wasn't fixed in 2 years after being first reported.

Aside from "Save As" (CTRL-S) there could also be an "Append" (to existing file)
and "Overwrite" (the same name file) functions.

Comment 8

[Zer0halo]

I have the same problem, using Tbird 0.7.1 on Fedora Core 2. You can work around
by going up to the previous level and then click on the folder and select it,
but it is a real hassle, and is a bug worth fixing, in my opinion. 

Comment 9

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

waiting for a three years anniversary, huh?

I get the same with Thunderbird 1.0. It's a big UI flaw, and still noone fixes
it for so long... Why? it's not hard, imho.

Btw1, If you want to save attachments to a newly-created folder, you create it
and then are automatically sent to it, so you have to go back afterwards and
select your folder. Or use the beforementioned workarount.

Btw2, Windows users get native "Save all" and "Save as" dialogs, maybe it's
possible to make GTK versions use GTK native dialogs too?

Comment 10

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

I just noticed that Firefox in Ubuntu  uses GTK-2.4 native File>Save and
File>Open dialogs. Does that mean we'll have it in the next release? :)

Comment 11

[Andrew Schultz]

*** Bug 284458 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Andrew Schultz]

Attachment: enable select button

There is already code to handle null selection with folder-selection mode.  The
button was just disabled.

Comment 13

[[e-mail]]

Sorry, but I already have a patch in bug 142482 ...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 142482 ***