224414 - drag file from ftp account in windows explorer and drop on attachments window, no attachment made

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Pedro Morte Rolo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

if grabing files in a ftp account opened in windows explorer and letting them
into the attachments panel he files r DELETED of the ftp site and rn't attached
to the mail. I LOST ALL MY WORK! I'M A MARTIR!!! AHHHHHHHHHH !

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open a ftp site with the win explorer
2.open a compose window in thunderbird
3.grab the files in the ftp site and drop tham over the attachements panel

Actual Results:  
the files wrn't attached and they wr deleted from my ftp site. don't retest this
with critical info!

Expected Results:  
attach A COPY of the files to my mail and let them in  my ftp site

Comment 1

[Jon Henry]

Confirmed, this is a nasty bug. It may or may not be a dupe of bug 191400.

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

no development blocker-->critical,dataloss

Comment 3

[greg crichton]

*** Bug 264197 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Fixed by bug 191400.

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The fix doesn't actually achieve the "expected results" -- while the file is not deleted from the FTP server, it is neither copied to the message, despite giving every indication that it will be.  Should this be reopened, or does that part need a separate bug?

Comment 6

[Son Le]

hmmm.. you're right, I was confused by the summary. It definitely solves the dataloss issue, so the severity is no longer critical. 

A separate bug sounds best.

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

OK, opened bug 356438 about the misleading cursor.  If someone wants to open an RFE for full-fledged FTP drag-n-drop support, they should do so.

Verifying that the dataloss no longer occurs with the trunk.

Comment 8

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Reopening because the patch at bug 191400 was backed out.

Comment 9

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does the issue still occur in the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported 2.0.0.x is 2.0.0.16)

Comment 10

[Pedro Morte Rolo]

I don't know. And I currently do not have any ftp account for which i can test the issue.

Comment 11

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Jon, Mike, still occurs for you?

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I'm not quite sold on the idea that a file copiedfrom ftp and deleted by the user (or moved and deleted by TB) is thunderbird dataloss. but I'm open to other perspectives.

in v3, I sometimes get "error copying message to the sent folder", but that may be  because of the file type of the file I'm testing with.

Comment 13

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Onno, can you reproduce this dataloss in v3 per bug 191400 comment 2?  (not fixed, unless it got resolved in another bug)

Comment 14

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

The UI shows I can drop the files from the ftp window to the attachment pane by displaying a plus (copy) icon, but nothing happens. So no dataloss for me, but also not desired action...