302086 - Drag and Drop a card from one address book to another twice and you get duplicates

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This affects both SeaMonkey & Thunderbird, and I think it needs to block the
fixing drag n drop move/copy/mail list bug.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Have two address books, one empty (a), one with at least one card in (b)
2) drag card from b to a.
3) repeat

Actual Results:
Two duplicate cards in address book a.

Expected Results, one of:
No duplicate cards/warning of duplication/merge (bug 295572)/denial of duplication

To minimise warning dialogs, we could provide a check to see if the card is
largely the same, i.e. maybe check for First, Last, Display Name & Email, and
only display a warning if they are all the same as an existing one.

Any comments?

Comment 1

[dominik lenné]

I can reproduce this bug in build 20051201.

Comment 2

[M Lopez-Ibanez]

This should at least depend on bug 45946

Comment 3

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

(:standard8), do you agree to close this as dupe of bug #45946?

Comment 4

[kaecyyalpha+mozilla]

It’s way too easy to mess up your address books and Lists by moving names around between them-- my book now has duplicates of every name, and when I deleted the extras I found that all my Lists were empty too! 

How about if Thunderbird could merge all the duplicates or otherwise make sure that if you’re deleting duplicates, the Contact is still in the Lists they’re supposed to be on unless the Contact was totally deleted?

Comment 5

[chrizilla]

WFM in TB 115.6.1. @ win10-64bit
Does this bug still occur ?

1. Have two address books, one empty (a), one with at least one card in (b)
2. drag card from b to a.
3. repeat

I tried to reproduce, but how can I "repeat" (step 3) when the card is effectively gone from (b) after step 2 since it was moved to (a) ?
The whole thing reads like back in the days drag+drop copied contacts instead of moving them.