142638 - Using a folder shortcut for attachments selects shortcut rather than opening folder

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 80579

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Chip Alexander]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041711

If you try to open a folder shortcut to get to the file you are trying to attach
to a mail message, instead of opening that folder it selects the shortcut file
(link file with extension .lnk) and returns.  You have to try again, and make
sure to use only actual folders, not shortcuts.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a folder shortcut on the desktop to some folder on the PC
2. Create a mail message
3. Try to select a file for attachment in the folder discussed above, going
through that shortcut.


Actual Results:  You will have selected the shortcut as the attached file (which
is useless).

Expected Results:  Opening the folder the shortcut specified

Using shortcuts works fine for saving files (html or images), but not for
opening attachments.  Perhaps the save as code can be copied or at least looked
at for the solution.

Comment 1

[Ere Maijala (slow)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80579 ***

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup