267756 - can't save attachments by drag-and-drop

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 253711

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Ryan McCowan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 0.9 (20041103)

Dragging-and-dropping an attachment to the desktop or any other folder fails
with a Windows error message titled "Error Moving File or Folder": "Cannot move
<filename>: There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file
may be in use."

Ctrl-dragging works, as it thinks you're trying to copy instead of move.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open an e-mail with attachments
2. try to drag an attachment to the desktop or any other folder

Actual Results:  
fails with error message noted in 'details'

Expected Results:  
should have saved the attachment where it was dropped.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Similiar to Bug 253711, related to Bug 252479?

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This is easy to reproduce with IMAP, but doesn't occur with POP.
As noted at the dupe, a workaround is to use Ctrl+drag, which "makes a copy" of 
the attachment.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 253711 ***

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #2)
> As noted at the dupe, a workaround is to use Ctrl+drag, which "makes a copy"
> of the attachment.

d'oh!  That's stated *here*, not at the dupe!

Comment 4

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Cleanup *dupeme* whiteboard flag from bugs that are marked as Resolved Duplicate!