Closed Bug 242631 Opened 20 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Drag and drop of attachments place file in the wrong place (saves to parent folder)

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 372322

People

(Reporter: dgallagher, Assigned: mscott)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040504 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 0.6 (20040502)

When dragging an attachment from a received email to the desktop (or other
folder) copies the attachment to the home folder in Mac OS X (10.2.8) instead of
the desired location.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open message with attachment
2 [review]. Drag attachment to desktop (or other folder)
3.

Actual Results:  
File is not found on the desktop, but is found in my home folder.

Expected Results:  
File should be dropped to desired location.
Confirmed using Thunderbird-Mac/0.6.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Preferences → Mail Window Front End
Ever confirmed: true
Confirmed using Thunderbird-Mac/0.7.1.
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0mac?
Is this related to bug 252479? Maybe they have a common cause.
IMAP or POP mail?(In reply to comment #3)
> Is this related to bug 252479? Maybe they have a common cause.

That's about dragging to an application and the file not being filed in the Temp 
folder, and applies to POP as well as IMAP mail.

Bug 253711 is apparently IMAP-specific and the drop-destination is a folder, 
like this bug.
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0mac?
I was wondering where my attachments were going!

This bug also happens with Mozilla 1.7.5 Mail on OS 10.3.7. 
Reporter (dghallagher) -- I'm curious if the workarounds described (for Windows) 
at bug 253711 comment 2 and 4 also works around for your problem on the Mac.  If 
so, this bug should be marked as a dupe of that one.
(In reply to comment #6)
> Reporter (dghallagher) -- I'm curious if the workarounds described (for Windows) 
> at bug 253711 comment 2 and 4 also works around for your problem on the Mac.  If 
> so, this bug should be marked as a dupe of that one.

No. The Mac equivalent (option+drag) places the file in the home folder, the
same as simply dragging the attachment.
on OSX 10.3.7, attachments dragged to a directory always end up in the parent
directory.  Same bug?
The file gets placed in the parent directory wherever you try to drag the file.... 
Confirmed with 1.0.2
Summary: Drag and drop of attachments place file in the wrong place → Drag and drop of attachments place file in the wrong place (saves to parent folder)
*** Bug 304341 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It still reproduces. 
version 1.5 Beta 2 (20051011)
Still happens in 1.5 release...
(In reply to comment #13)
> Still happens in 1.5 release...
> 

I confirme,
 this bug still happens in version 1.5 updated (20051201)

FYI : IMAP email account - MacOSX 10.3.9 client - Exchange server
*** Bug 356331 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Problem still occurs in version 2 beta 2 (20070116)
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Why is 242631 (this bug) considered a dupe of 372322?  242631 came first!  Should 372322 be marked a dupe of 242631?  We've been waiting almost two years for a fix for this bug.  372322 is only a day old.  By marking this bug as the dupe, you make it look like your bug fix turnaround is 24 hours, rather than 24 months.
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