1433753 - Save attachment after click on button "Save" WITHOUT directory selection prompt (as configured in Options)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 814000

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Thomas Stein]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20180118122319

Steps to reproduce:

Assume I got a message with an attachment.

I disabled in Tools->Options->Attachments->Incoming "Always ask me where to save files" and selected the directory for "Save files to". 

Now I want to save the attachment by ONE click on the "Save" button in the attachment line WITHOUT any further prompt into this pre-defined directory.

This does currently NOT work. Whenever I click on button "save" a directory selection dialog pops up prompting me where to save the attachment.

This is senseless. Thunderbird has all information it needs to save the attachments immediately.

The sometimes mentioned workaround to save the attachments by a double click on the file name is not appropriate since I still want to have the option to view the attachments (e.g. pdf) directly from message.

When I re-defined the action for double click I do not have any more this function.

So Thunderbird should do what the button "save" pretends to be: A save without bothering the user any more.

Can this be added in the next release?

Thomas

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

(In reply to Thomas Stein from comment #0)
> Can this be added in the next release?
If someone provides a patch for it. Thunderbird is open source, so theoretically anyone could fix this problem.

Comment 2

[Benjamin Flanagin]

I can confirm this behavior in the latest beta (69.0b3). The file save dialog appears regardless to the option set -or- is superseded by the options above.

Comment 3

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Ben, we don't move the version forward. If it was reported for TB 52, we leave it at that we know when the bug was raised.

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Broken/useless UI since time immemorial, as I have pointed out long back on other bugs.

Comment 5

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Thomas Stein from comment #0)

Now I want to save the attachment by ONE click on the "Save" button in the
attachment line WITHOUT any further prompt into this pre-defined directory.
This does currently NOT work.

Thomas, thanks for filing this, and 100% correct. Workflows around saving attachments haven't been ideal for long, even broken, and need a wholistic overhaul, which is less trivial than it seems, but definitely doable.

For now, this is a duplicate of existing bug 814000.

Comment 6

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

See also: bug 539198, bug 549719