1353687 - No error mesage on drag and drop of operating system folder to attach to a new message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 188598

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[ale5000]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.133 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Drag a folder inside a new mail


Actual results:

It attach the folder itself (as it was a file)


Expected results:

Display an error or attach the files inside the folder

Comment 1

[ale5000]

PS: I'm on Windows.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Does problem reproduce if you have started Thunderbird in safe mode?
See https://support.mozilla.org/kb/safe-mode-thunderbird

Comment 3

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Please ignore comment #2 here, Wayne always asks that.

So you're dragging a folder onto the addressing widget as if you wanted to attach it.

And then nothing happens. That's always been that way. For drag and drop, we don't issue error messages, but perhaps the drag cursor should turn into a stop sign like for other drag operations where you hovering an invalid drag target.

Not a high-priority bug ;-)

Comment 4

[ale5000]

(In reply to Jorg K (GMT+2) from comment #3)
> Please ignore comment #2 here, Wayne always asks that.
> 
> So you're dragging a folder onto the addressing widget as if you wanted to
> attach it.
> 
> And then nothing happens. That's always been that way. For drag and drop, we
> don't issue error messages, but perhaps the drag cursor should turn into a
> stop sign like for other drag operations where you hovering an invalid drag
> target.
> 
> Not a high-priority bug ;-)

The problem is the opposite, something happens.
It attach something, people receive a sort of dat file with the name of the folder.

Comment 5

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Oh, you mean a folder of the file system, not a TB folder, sorry. Yes, that attaches something weird:

--------------9454942F92896788027A3D6F
Content-Type: application/http-index-format;
 name="FONTS"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
 filename="FONTS"

MzAwOiBmaWxlOi8vL0Q6L0ZPTlRTLwoyMDA6IGZpbGVuYW1lIGNvbnRlbnQtbGVuZ3RoIGxh
c3QtbW9kaWZpZWQgZmlsZS10eXBlCjIwMTogRk9SVEUuVFRGIDYxNzc2IE1vbiwlMjAwNCUy

I "attached" a folder called FONTS.