318160 - crash when attempting to add or save an attachment, if last/default download/attachment directory is removed or unaccessible

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 303675

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[brereton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

TB crashes when trying to save or add an attachment.  The previous attachment I had added was on my laptop, connected via my LAN.  Looking in the config file, the preference mail.compose.attach.dir was set to a folder on my laptop.  When the laptop is not connected, TB crashes.  On changing this preference to a folder on my PC, all is working again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Send an attachment from a network machine.
2.Remove that machine from the network
3.Now try to send an attachment

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Fixed resolution.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Sorry, hit the wrong bug.

I am pretty sure this bug is a dupe, maybe even one that's been fixed, but I can't find the earlier one.

which version of TB are you reporting the bug against?

Comment 3

[brereton]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Sorry, hit the wrong bug.
> 
> I am pretty sure this bug is a dupe, maybe even one that's been fixed, but I
> can't find the earlier one.
> 
> which version of TB are you reporting the bug against?
> 

1.5rc1 - and I can't find any record of the bug on bugzilla.

Comment 4

[Alastair Davies]

I have the same problem.  It is especially noticeable for me when, one day, I save an attachment from a received message to a folder on a network machine.  The next day, before I have turned on the network machine, I try to save another attachment, and Thunderbird hangs immediately.  I say "hangs" rather than crashes, because if I turn on the network machine whilst it is in this state, it recovers and puts up the "Save As" dialog, as expected.

I am using Thunderbird 1.5 RC1 on Windows XP SP2, and the relevant network machine is MacOS X 10.2.8 with Windows file sharing turned on.

Comment 5

[Adam Guthrie]

Could you install with talkback and get a talkback ID for the crash? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Talkback

Comment 6

[brereton]

TB is now displaying an error message - network drive not found - after about 20 seconds & defaulting to a folder on my own machine.  It was previously hanging - or so it seemed - but I guess I might have just been impatient and caused the crash/hang (it went to a 'not responding' state according to XP) by trying to close TB down when it was waiting for a response.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Alastair. do you still see this? sorta like bug 307106 comment 9?

note: reporter email is invalid.

Comment 8

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #6)

> TB is now displaying an error message - network drive not found
> It was previously hanging (it went to a 'not responding' state according to XP)
This is Bug 303675(and many bugs DUP'ed to), and fixed, then no hanging any more.
Bug 303675 was fixed on 2005-08-08. (applied on Tb 2.0).

> after about 20 seconds
How long will next take in your environment? (\\XXX is not-exist server)
 - DIR \\XXX\YYY
 - NET VIEW

Original crash problem in comment #0 looks to be already WORKSFORME.
Duping to Bug 303675.

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

If Alastiar still has a problem, it might be bug 240644.  So closing is great.