348380 - Path to save attachments

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 262866

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Stefan Matthäus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6

I have an email with attachments. I right click on the attachments, and I select to save all attachments. I get path select box and I select the directory to save the attachments. If the file does not exist in this path, then everything is ok, thunderbird saves the attachments without problems. But if one of the files already exists, then I get a file select box to save the attached file with another filename. Here is the bug, the drive letter in the path has not a double point, but a minus-sign. example: The path should be: d:\data\example_image.jpg. But in the file name field the path is displayed as: d-\data\example_image.jpg. But I think in the file name field should not contain the full path, but only the filename. If I correct the path manually and modify filename, by replacing the "-" by ":" or by deleting the full path and only leave the filename (example_image.jpg) then I can save the file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. select an email with attachments
2. select one attachment, right click, select to save all attachments from context menu
3. save files
5. select again one attachment, right click, select to save all attachments from context menu
6. save files
7. Thunderbird detects that the file(s) already exists, and shows the path with - instead of : in the file name field.


Actual Results:  
At step 6 it tells about invalid path. After correcting - to : and modify filename, it saves the attachment.

Expected Results:  
Should only display the filename in the filename-field. Instead it shows full path of the file, but with - instead of : behind the drive letter.

I can send screenshots if you can not reproduce. Just contact by mail. (But whole September I'll be offline, as I'll be in vacations far far away from home.)

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 262866 ***