377752 - file attachment added via drag-and-drop sometimes has no icon (mime-type known, image, jpg, missing icon)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.0 (20070326)

Sometimes when adding a file attachment via drag n drop, the attachment has no icon.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:
This is what I did before getting the situation of attached screenshot
1. Windows XP Explorer, select 4 files (pic1.jpg, pic2.jpg, ...) from external drive, context menu, send to > email recipient
2. delete first file in mail compose attachment pane list (strangely, the first was pic4.jpg)
3. add pic4.jpg again, this time via drag n drop from explorer into attachment pane (--> pic4.jpg now last in the attachment file list).
Actual Results:  
The file attached via drag & drop did not have an icon in front of it in the attachment list

Expected Results:  
The file added via drag & drop (pic4.jpg) should have an icon like the other 3 jpg attachments. The mime type of the file is known, as can bee seen from the other 3 attachments of the same type, *.jpg (all 4 files created in the same way, so it's not the file which was wrong).

This might be related to Bug 362491 which shows another problem with drag n drop attachments.

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Attachment: Screenshot of this bug in TB 2 RC1 en-us

Comment 2

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Reporter the problem still exists also in last TB 2.0.0.22 release?

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Thanks for asking, no, I'm not able to reproduce this on TB 2.0.0.22.
--> resolved worksforme

The only thing that struck me is that when I add an attachment from a removable drive (usb data stick), TB just memorizes the path to the file on the stick, even after saving as draft. Remove the stick after thinking you have just "added" the attachment (it's meaningless!), and you'll be unable to save the mail as a draft cause TB looks for the attachment on the stick. But I'm sure there must be another bug for this, which might even be one of mine.