Closed Bug 103877 Opened 23 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Saving attachments places file at destination before download completed

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
MailNews: Message Display
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 63993

People

(Reporter: bruppel1, Assigned: sspitzer)

Details

From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011009 BuildID: 2001100903 Right now, as soon as I start an attachment download, the file is placed at its destination whether it is complete or not. This can be bad, since the file will stay there if it is not completed. That way, you have no indication that the file wasn't finished and you might delete your email and do whatever with a corrupt file. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start downloading a big attachment, or several smaller ones 2.exit mailnews before they're done downloading, or open them before they're done downloading Actual Results: the file will be present, but it will be incomplete and corrupted. Expected Results: Files should not go to their destination until they are done. They should act like the browser downloading process.
I just posted a long comment about the issue of partially downloaded files in bug 55307. I think it's time for a metabug, some factoring (to ensure consistent behavior across the browser and mail client), and maybe some newsgroup discussion.
Marking these all WORKSFORME sorry about lack of response but were very overloaded here. Only reopen the bug if you can reproduce with the following steps: 1) Download the latest nightly (or 0.9.6 which should be out RSN) 2) Create a new profile 3) test the bug again If it still occurs go ahead and reopen the bug. Again sorry about no response were quite overloaded here and understaffed.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
QA Contact: esther → trix
verified wfm
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Still broken on my machine. win32, March 1st build. I start downloading a 2 meg file from my mailbox, and the file shows up immediately. Reopening.
Status: VERIFIED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: WORKSFORME → ---
Ben, can you reproduce it on 1.0 RC1? If not, set it to "worksforme"
still broken on april 16 build. don't have the rc1 installed.
And it's broken in rc1. Just tried it.
WFM in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020521. Reporter, do you still see it? pi
No, I can't confirm this right now because of serious other bustage, in which mozilla tells me it can't save an attachment and to check the attachment's name. grrrrrr I'll keep trying.
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 Build: 2002053012 WFM
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago → 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
verified wfm
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
still doesn't work for me. I have June 29th build and I created a new profile.
This is really annoying when downloading porn movies. It's hard to tell when each file has finished downloading, so I end up getting a lot of "file already in use" errors from Windows Media Player. I think we should do what Audiogalaxy does: put the file in the destination folder as soon as the destination folder is known, but give it a ".temp" extension and then rename it when the download is complete.
Blocks: 129923
Status: VERIFIED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: WORKSFORME → ---
this has nothing to do with bug 129923 and is in fact asking for exactly the reverse of what that bug is asking for.
No longer blocks: 129923
WFM 2002071813, [going through old unconfirmed bugs]
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago → 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
ahem. SDNWFM. Still Does Not Work For Me. Build 072108. Are you using IMAP? Are you sure that the file is completely downloaded when you click on it?
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: WORKSFORME → ---
I guess I missed some details. What do you mean by "downloading" attachments? Saving? pi
Yes. If I get a 4 Meg pdf file in the mail, right click on it and choose "save as", the file is placed in the target location immediately, even though the file is not all there yet.
i guess this happens with files that can be ??streamed?? like .pdf and .wmv to me. never happened with other files, like .zip, .exe, .txt and .doc
Okay, so using a pdf file was a bad example because they can stream. I tried it with a big zip. I start the download, and the icon appears immediately on my desktop. I try to open the file, but it gives an error, because the file isn't completely download yet (you can see the throbber still going in mail)
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/2002082818 Confirming with a mail received on POP3, 4 meg zip file used. pi
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: Downloading attachments should not place a file at its destination until the download is complete → Saving attachments places file at destination before download completed
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63993 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago → 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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