231489 - "move bookmark" from context menu allows you to move bookmark folders into themselves

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Stefan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031210 MultiZilla/1.6.0.0e
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031210 MultiZilla/1.6.0.0e

Mozilla allows you to move folders into themselves, effectively deleting them
without an obvious way of getting them back.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a folder in the Personal Bookmark Folder
2. right click on it and select "move bookmark"
3. select the folder itself and press OK
Actual Results:  
the folder disappears and is obviously deleted

Expected Results:  
check and warn - this is a stupid and annoying thing that should not be possible

if a window pops up asking you to "select folder...", it is actually intuitive
to select the folder that you want to move. So, I consider this a dangerous bug
that can lead to data loss.

Comment 1

[Gangadhar NPK]

Tested on Mozilla 1.6 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6)
Gecko/20040113 , and the bug *exists*.
Reproducible: 
   Always
Steps to reproduce:
  1. Create a new bookmark folder 
  2. Move the folder onto itself
  3. The folder is deleted
What happens:
   The folder is deleted
Expected behavior:
    A message saying that a folder cant be moved onto itself, and the move
operation aborts.

Comment 2

[Jesiah S]

I see this also on LInux 2004020207. Also, when you undo the "move" Mozilla crashes.

Comment 3

[brian63]

I second the motion. Just lost a whole long list...

-B

Comment 4

[u63580]

*** Bug 310768 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Kevin Rolfes]

I just wanted to add a note that this also happenned to me with Mozilla 1.7.12 on Win2K.  It's completely reproducible; I also just lost a long list of bookmarks. :-(
In my case, "undo" doesn't crash Mozilla for me (as Jesiah reported).  However, "undo" doesn't do anything at all in this case, as far as I can tell.

Comment 6

[Ray Booysen]

Reassigning as per Bug #32644

Comment 7

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

This has probably been fixed by the move to Places-based bookmarks (SM 2.1 and later). With current trunk, this is WFM: Using Move from the Edit menu (there is no Move in the context menu anymore), selecting the folder itself and pressing OK does nothing.