280848 - News articles deselected after download completed.

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, upon completion of the
downloading of the news articles the articles that were selected in the news
article list are deselected.  This is a nuisance if you plan to mark the
articles in the newsgroup listing as read after downloading them.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a local folder.
2. Select a news group and download the headers.
3. Select multiple news articles.
4. Drag and drop the selected articles into the local folder.
Actual Results:  
Upon completing the download of the selected news articles, they are deselected
in the newsgroup article listing pane.

Expected Results:  
Upon completing the download of the selected news articles, leave the downloaded
articles in the newsgroup article listing pane selected.

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.