280846 - When downloading news articles, status line is not updating

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206)

When multiple articles in a news group are selected, and then dragged and
dropped into a local folder for later reading, the status bar displays the
message "Copying 1 of 9 messages to foldername".  This status line never
updates.  When copying a large number of articles, it would be useful if the
status line would keep track of the article number it is downloading ("Copying 2
of 9 ...", Copying 3 of 9 ...", etc.).  This used to happen in older versions of
Netscape (I believe prior to 7.2).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a local folder.
2. Select a news group and download the headers.
3. Select multiple news articles (on a fast connection, this is easier to
observe if a hundred or more articles are selected).
4. Drag and drop the selected articles into the local folder.

Actual Results:  
The status line does not change after the initial message.

Expected Results:  
The status line should reflect the number (x of y) of the article that is being
downloaded.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.