Closed Bug 328269 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

dragging windows shortcut to attach a file attaches shortcut (.lnk) not real file

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Message Compose Window
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 276869

People

(Reporter: tspiteri, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: version 1.5 (20051201)

When I drag and drop a windows shortcut file (.lnk) to the compose window to attach the file, the shortcut itself is attached, not the real file.
If I try to attach the shortcut using File->Attach->File(s), the real file is attached.
I think the latter behaviour is more useful and that drag and drop should behave like opening using the file chooser.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Drag and drop Windows shortcut file (.lnk) to compose window in order to attach.

Actual Results:  
Useless shortcut file (.lnk) is attached.

Expected Results:  
Real file should be attached.
Version: unspecified → 1.5
Thunderbird version of Suite bug 276869?
Yes, but that bug was misfiled; it's Core.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 276869 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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