Closed Bug 1334681 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Attach files over network bug (Mac)

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
41 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1335330

People

(Reporter: vcalatayud, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce: I am using Thunderbird on Mac OS 10.6.8 64bit and I noticed could not attach files that are on a smb network in another Windows computer. When I am writing an email and click the clip to attach the file it just shows all my network shares greyed out and cannot do nothing more. If I just drag the file from the Mac Os finder window to the email it is correctly attached but not as practical, because some times I need to dowload attached files to my internal hard disc and then copy it again to the smb share. I noticed this problem started from Thunderbird 41.0b2 , with 41.0b1 it works OK and I am using it at the moment. It will help to solve that bug in newer versions as 45.7 Actual results: Network share is greyed out so not possible to navigate the share to find the file to attach to the mail Expected results: Possibility of navigate to the file in the network share and attach it to the mail
Severity: normal → major
OS: Unspecified → Mac OS X
Priority: -- → P1
Hardware: Unspecified → x86_64
Priority: P1 → P2
I just noticed that if I tick the "open in 32bit" option in the icon of Thunderbird it accesses the network shares perfectly, they problem only happens when running the app in 64bit mode. Also I noticed that this problem affects Firefox too, and again the solution is to run it in 32bit mode.
Thunderbird is built on Mozilla core technology, just as Firefox. Any problem you can reproduce in Firefox, please report for Firefox since the Thunderbird team usually can't fix bugs in the Mozilla core toolbox.
Managed to solve this "problem" by adding an Alias of the shared folder in the finder's desktop. I can access that alias from Thunderbird and Firefox without problem.
If you want the problem fixed, please report it as a Firefox bug.
I did, but as Firefox is not supporting any more Mac OS 10.6 they closed the report.
(In reply to Xtro1975 from comment #5) > I did, but as Firefox is not supporting any more Mac OS 10.6 they closed the > report. Unfortunately then, Thunderbird is in the same boat as Firefox. Ditto for bug 1228764
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Priority: P2 → --
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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