287717 - Save can not traverse .lnk shortcuts

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 283730

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Luni]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; NetCaptor 7.5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0.2

Thunderbird 1.0.2 no longer properly traverses Window's .lnk shortcuts in the 
Save dialog box.  Instead, I am prompted to save the file as the "blah.lnk" 
file itself.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a shortcut to a folder (mine is on my Desktop)
2. send an email with an attachment to yourself
3. double click the attachment
4 [review]. choose "Save to disk"
5. navigate to your shortcut and double click

Actual Results:  
Test.lnk already exists.  Do you want to replace it?

Expected Results:  
The Save dialog should navigate to the directory pointed to by the shortcut

This worked fine in Thunderbird 1.0

Comment 1

[Keith McDuffee]

This bug also appears in Mozilla 1.7.6, at least when attempting to save a web page.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a shortcut to a folder
2. visit a legitimate web page
3. select File->Save Page As...
4. navigate to your shortcut and double click

Same results as reported.

This occuring on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003.  I tested Mozilla 1.7.5
and this problem does not exist with that version.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

could any of the fixes that landed in 1.02 cause this?

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

Bug #271732 looks suspicious

Comment 4

[Keith McDuffee]

This is actually a duplicate of Bug #283730

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 283730 ***