1606045 - For "Save as..." on multiple selected attachments, TB does not remember the same folder

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1565007

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Dossi Pietro Paolo]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0 Waterfox/56.3

Steps to reproduce:

1. I receive an email with multiple attachments
2. Select them all (ctrl+a)
3. Save as

Actual results:

Thunderbird prepare separate windows for each attachment preparing to save them in the folder I last "save as" my attachment, not remembering the folder I save the first attachment (I suppose that the attachments in one email should all be saved in the same folder)

Expected results:

TB should present the save window for the first attachment; for the second attachment TB should present me the same folder I chose for first attachment.
TB started to change this behavior with last update (68.3.1 (64-bit))

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Dossi Pietro Paolo from comment #0)

1. I receive an email with multiple attachments
2. Select them all (ctrl+a)
3. Save as

Expected results:

TB should present the save window for the first attachment; for the second attachment TB should present me the same folder I chose for first attachment.
TB started to change this behavior with last update (68.3.1 (64-bit))

Hello Dossi, thanks for reporting this. Can you elaborate on your use case a bit? You mentioned that you're using Ctrl+A to select all attachments first.

What is the expected behaviour which you are looking for?
a) Save all attachments into the same folder, using the file names provided by sender (that's easily available via SAVE-ALL button on attachment header bar), OR
b) Save all attachments into the same folder, but TB should allow you to rename each file before saving (i.e. you want to see one Save-As dialog for each attachment, but with the last-used folder preset). (Note: For those who so wish, b) also allows saving each attachment into a different folder, with predefined or custom name).

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

This isn't a duplicate of bug 1595732, which is an RFE requesting a new feature of saving multiple selected attachments into the same folder via folder picker (select folder only once to save all attachments into that folder without option of changing their file name).

Instead, this bug is a duplicate of accurately described bug 1565007: There's a regression that instead of sequentially opening one Save-As dialog for every file as we correctly used to do (enabling per-attachment choice of folder and file name), now all the per-attachment dialogs are opened at once, resulting in an undesirable and inconvenient pre-choice of folder.

Old, correct behaviour:
First, dialog for file1: opens with last-used folder F1, user may change to folder F2.
Thereafter, dialog for file2: opens with last-used folder F2, so it's easy to save the next file to the same location with predefined name by just pressing Enter repeatedly (whilst allowing choice of different folder AND/OR filename for each file per definition of "Save as...").

Regressed current behaviour:
dialog for file1: opens with last-used folder F1, user may change to folder F2.
simultaneously: dialog for file2: opens with (previous) last-used folder F1 (even if file1 was saved to folder F2), hence requiring manual re-selection of folder F2 for each and every attachment.

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Dossi (reporter), I would still appreciate if you could answer my questions of comment 2 (needinfo from comment 2)...?