298074 - Changing the name of file as you save attachments drops extension

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[junk.endless]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2)
Build Identifier: 

If windows is set to hide file extensions, as you save an attachment with right
click -> Save As and change the name of the file (the "save as type:" box shows
only "All files"), you lose the extension of the file. If you don't change the
filename everything goes fine. 
Instead, if you doubleclick on the attachment and chose Save to Disk you can
change the name and everything works (the "save as type:" box displays both "All
Files" and the correct file type, for example pdf).

This is a big problem for non experts.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set windows to hide file extensions
2. right click on an attachment 
3 [review]. choose Save as
4. in the save as dialog box change the file name
5. click save

Actual Results:  
the file saved has no extension

Expected Results:  
keep the file extension

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to Core bug 57113 and Core bug 129979?

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 4

[Adam Piggott]

*** Bug 317661 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Adam Piggott]

Not sure if this is a dupe of Core bug 129979, definitely related though. Could someone look at bug 129979 and mark this as a duplicate or re-open this bug? (I can't re-open it)

Comment 6

[walf]

Please Reopen this bug! I can't.

I have this problem also with thunderbird version 1.5 (20051201) and previously with a 1.0.x version.

I have my file extensions hidden in windows but every time I right-click on an attachment (including inline images in an html message) and choose 'save as', the original file extension is gone if I change the text in the 'file name' field, even if the text is changed back to the original the extension is gone.

This definitely isn't the same as bug 129979 which is about changing the expected file extension as far as I can tell, but I'm no coder so they may still be related.

The is a considerable number of 'mystery files' on my mum's computer because of this bug.