20183 - Warn before deleting an address book

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect, P3)

Description

[Richard Zach]

If I understand correctly, the personal address book is treated differently than
other additional address books.  If so, it should not be possible to delete it;
especially since there seems to be no way to recreate it once deleted.

Comment 1

[lchiang]

zach - can you list the build date of the Linux build you are using? Thanks.

Comment 2

[Richard Zach]

I deleted mine on 199911520 (M11) Linux; I'd rather not do it again (had to
delete and recreate the profile to fix it).

Comment 3

[Phil Peterson]

I don't think the personal address book is special at all. You should be able to
delete it, but it would be nice if gave a warning first, and had "No" as the
default button in the dialog.

Comment 4

[hangas]

Bumping to M15

Comment 5

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

CCing self -- I was just about to report a bug, `"Delete address book" should 
have confirmation dialog'. This should apply to all address books, not just the 
PAB.

Comment 6

[selmer (gone)]

Mass moving to M16 to get these off the M15 radar.  Please let me know if this
is really an M15 stopper.

Comment 7

[selmer (gone)]

Not M16 stopper.  Moving to M17.  Please add keyword beta2 if this is a beta2 
blocker.

Comment 8

[hangas]

Mass move mailnews bugs to Putterman.  Ouch.

Comment 9

[selmer (gone)]

Mail Review recommends beta2 stopper.  Adding nsbeta2 keyword.

Comment 10

[leger]

Putting on [nsbeta2+][6/01] radar.  This work must be done by 06/01 or we may 
pull this for PR2.

Comment 11

[leger]

Due to slip in schedule, moving this bug from [6/01] to [Will be minus on 6/15] 
for fix deadline.

Comment 12

[scottputterman]

reassiging to varada.  It might be useful to look at how mail does this for
deleting folders.

Comment 13

[scottputterman]

*** Bug 42081 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[simone]

Try this text (similar to 4.x) "Deleting 'address book name' will erase 
its mailing lists and cards. Are you 
sure you want to delete this address book?" Followed by an Yes and No
button (instead of OK and Cancel).

Comment 15

[jglick]

User should get a confirmation dialog before deleting ANY of their ABs.

Comment 16

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Ok, that's three saying it should be any address book and not just the PAB, so 
resummarizing.

Jennifer, `Yes' and `No' is bad for the same reason `Ok' and `Cancel' is bad: 
`Would you like to continue without deleting your address book?'. You get the 
idea. :-)

Easy design:

+---------------------------------------------+
| Delete Address Book ::::::::::::::::::::::::|
+---------------------------------------------+
| /!\ Are you sure you want to delete the     |
| `-' "Baker Street Irregulars" address book, |
|     including all of its cards and mailing  |
|     lists?                                  |
|                                             |

Ideal design:

+---------------------------------------------+
| Delete Address Book ::::::::::::::::::::::::|
+---------------------------------------------+
| /!\ The "Baker Street Irregulars" address   |
| `-' book contains 118 cards and/or mailing  |
|     lists. Are you sure you want to delete  |
|     this address book permanently?          |
|                                             |

Bottom of either dialog, Mac/Unix:

| [?]                 (( Cancel )) ( Delete ) |
+---------------------------------------------+

Bottom of either dialog, Windows:

|     ( Delete ) (( Cancel )) (  Help  )      |
+---------------------------------------------+

Comment 17

[varada]

Accepting bugs

Comment 18

[scottputterman]

I'd like to have an extension on this bug. Perhaps until 6/22?  This is similar 
to deleting a folder in the folder pane.  It's easy to forget where one has 
focus and given that we have no trash for the address book, not putting a dialog 
can make it very easy to delete important information easily.

Comment 19

[Phil Peterson]

PDT agrees beta stopper. Removing [6/15] from status whiteboard

Comment 20

[varada]

Marking Fixed.

Comment 21

[esther]

Using build 2000-06-23 on win98, mac and linux this is fixed.  verified.