319129 - Thunderbird does not give warning for Empty Trash

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Daniel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

No warning is given on Empty Trash thus wiping out whole Trash at once even when this is hit by system slow reply or by chance

Very unfortunate - I have just wiped out about two years of messages this way!!!



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to File->Empty Trash
2. You are ****.
3.

Actual Results:  
Everything is wiped

Expected Results:  
Warning should be given prior to wiping out files

Comment 1

[Daniel]

Version 1.0.7 Linux

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

->new 
Thunderbird version of bug 179891. It's not only the file menu BTW.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 330865 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

the trend in recent years is for "undo" to be the data recovery of choice. And we have in the past wontfix bugs that request relief for cases of "operator error".

But if that's not appropriate here, then this should be changed from ENH to some reasonably high severity.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

that said, it seems we have mail.emptyTrash.dontAskAgain which is false by default, and forces the prompt. I don't know when it was implemented