Closed Bug 238943 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Right click "Save Image As" on displayed newsgroup image attachment not saving

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
MailNews: Message Display
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 145408

People

(Reporter: vogelbp, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316

When a jpg attachment is displayed inline under MailNews, you can right click
on the image and get the mini-menu containing "Save Image As".  When this
is selected, a directory is navigated to, and the save button hit, all that
is getting created is a "stub" file between 1 and 2 KB in size with none of
the actual data downloaded.

This is occurring whether I am having Download Manager or a Progress Dialog
open at download.

You can still successfully download the attachment by right clicking in
the "attached file" window to the right of the "Subject" (etc) and choosing
"Save As", but this entails another full download of the image.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any binary pictures group, e.g., alt.binaries.pictures.orchids
2. Select any message and wait until picture displays in MailNews window
3. Right click on picture
4. Choose "Save Image As"
5. Navigate to whatever directory you wish and hit "Save" in the dialog.
6. Open the directory in Windows Explorer, with "Thumbnails" chosen, and you 
   will not have the picture.  Alternatively, you can double click on the
   file to try to open it in your photo editing program.  The open fails
   usually noting "cannot determine file type"

Actual Results:  
No thumbnails are produced and the .jpg file is unopenable

Expected Results:  
Saved the .jpg attachment
looks like Bug 238417, but the size of the file should be bigger.
Could you please take a look at the saved files with notepad?
(In reply to comment #1)
> looks like Bug 238417, but the size of the file should be bigger.
> Could you please take a look at the saved files with notepad?

It appears to be closely related.  I can, and do, re-create this
error with *every* attempt to save via the method I noted.
Below is the text contained in one of the "saved image" files:
--------------------------START CONTENT---------------------------------
<html>
<head>
<title>Slc Paprika</title>
<link rel="important stylesheet" href="chrome://messenger/skin/messageBody.css">
</head>
<body>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%"
class="header-part1"><tr><td><div class="headerdisplayname"
style="display:inline;">Subject: </div>Slc Paprika</td></tr><tr><td><div
class="headerdisplayname" style="display:inline;">From: </div>&quot;Wendy&quot;
&lt;wendy7PETERPAN@cox.net&gt;</td></tr><tr><td><div class="headerdisplayname"
style="display:inline;">Date: </div>Sun, 25 Jan 2004 06:55:00
-0800</td></tr></table><table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%"
class="header-part2"><tr><td><div class="headerdisplayname"
style="display:inline;">Newsgroups:
</div>alt.binaries.pictures.orchids</td></tr></table><br>
<div class="moz-text-plain" wrap=true graphical-quote=true style="font-family:
-moz-fixed; font-size: 13px;" lang="x-western"><pre wrap>Slc. Paprika 'Black Magic'
This one is color adjusted, still not exact. Should be more burgandy?
<div class="moz-txt-sig">-- 
Cheers Wendy
Remove PETERPAN for email reply



</div></pre></div><P><CENTER><IMG
SRC="news://news.rica.net:119/_MQQb.617%24Zz1.336%40fed1read02?part=1.2&type=image/jpeg&filename=Slc%20Paprika%20%27BlackMagic%27%20A1115-03597.JPG"></CENTER><P></body>
</html>
<center><table border><tr><td><div align=right class="headerdisplayname"
style="display:inline;">Slc Paprika 'BlackMagic'
A1115-03597.JPG</div></td><td><table
border=0></table></td></tr></table></center><br>
--------------------------End CONTENT-----------------------------------
i find now with Moz-1.7b gecko 20040316 W98SE when using the newsgroups reader 
that if i try to save an image from a newgroup message using the context menu
(right click) 
it saves a file, but a corrupt one. on rare occasion nothing saves, but most of
the time 
a corrput file gets saved instead. if i use file/attachments/save-as, then it
saves the file ok. 
also, UNLIKE moz-1.4.1, when i save an image, the download manager does NOT 
pop up (even when i tell it to use the download manager). the download manager
now only pops up 
for saving images from web pages using browser, but NOT from newsgroups reader; 
it used to pop up with either when i used moz-1.4.1 instead. 
this seems to be new for 1.7b (compared to 1.4.1) on win-98se



Bug 238417 has a report that this occurs for emails from Outlook Express, and 
the problem takes place on images embedded within an HTML message (as opposed to 
regular attachments).  Does this correspond with the problem reported here?

A sample message exhibiting the problem is requested.  Unless something comes up 
here to seriously differentiate it from that bug, this one will be marked as a 
duplicate, so if the email matches that description, please attach it to 238417.
*** Bug 241640 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #4)
> Bug 238417 has a report that this occurs for emails from Outlook Express, and 
> the problem takes place on images embedded within an HTML message (as opposed to 
> regular attachments).  Does this correspond with the problem reported here?
> 
> A sample message exhibiting the problem is requested.  Unless something comes up 
> here to seriously differentiate it from that bug, this one will be marked as a 
> duplicate, so if the email matches that description, please attach it to 238417.
 
this happens when you view a file from USENET NEWSGROUPS. i do not see how this
could happen due to some outlook express messages. it affects newsgroups just as
badly as e-mails!

(In reply to comment #6)
> this happens when you view a file from USENET NEWSGROUPS. i do not see how
> this could happen due to some outlook express messages. it affects newsgroups
> just as badly as e-mails!

Outlook Express can post to newsgroups too.

Still: when you locate a message where this occurs, save it as a .EML file and 
attach the file to this bug, or to bug 238417.
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Brian Vogel, please see bug 238417 comment 9, and bug 270772.
see bug 145408 too
Assignee: sspitzer → mail
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 145408 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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