299979 - If network share is missing - Thunderbird will not release to local filesystem.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 240644

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Neil J. McLeish]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

If the last attachment was on a network share which is now disconnected,
Thunderbird will not give up trying to connect until (maybe) the share is
reconnected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Attach a file on a network share (eg: \\169.254.3.43\docs)
2.Close TBird
3.Disconnect from network (go home, have some dinner)
4.Open TBird
5.Create new message
6.Attempt to attach a file.

Actual Results:  
The composer window freezes.
I waited for 15 minutes and it did not yield.

Expected Results:  
After short timeout, maybe 1 min, TBird should realise that there is nowhere to
go and should default to a dir on the local filesystem, say 'My Documents'.

I managed to overcome this by closing TBird and editing prefs.js.
[C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Application
Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\%profile%.default\prefs.js]
I changed the value for mail.compose.attach.dir to "d:\\tmp"

Additionally, closing TBird left a process running which had to be killed
through the task mangler

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of Core bug 240644?

Comment 2

[Neil J. McLeish]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Duplicate of Core bug 240644?

Confirming Duplicate of Core bug 240644.
Sorry I missed it in the search.
Regards,

Neil.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 240644 ***