399473 - when cut/copy/pasting a place: query, we convert it to a folder

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P4)

Description

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

when cut/copy/pasting a place: query, we convert it to a folder

in bug #387996, ria wrote:

> When I cut the Places folder to another place the new folder is not functional.
> When I cut it back it stays dysfunctional. No way to get it back.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007101523 Minefield/3.0a9pre

Paste is grayed out at the moment, due to bug 399930. Places is clearly something that is nothing in the clipboard and can't be pasted :).
I'll make it blocking bug 399930 for the moment.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007101523
> Minefield/3.0a9pre
> 
> Paste is grayed out at the moment, due to bug 399930. Places is clearly
> something that is nothing in the clipboard and can't be pasted :).
> I'll make it blocking bug 399930 for the moment.
> 
It goes for all bookmarks. I filed bug 399978 for this.

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

with the "Smart Bookmarks" folder in the personal toolbar, this is easy for users to run into.

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

here's another user scenario for why we want to fix this (courtesy of polvi)

once dnd starts working again (see bug #405198), users might try to drag and drop which should be a copy) or copy/paste one of "Smart Bookmarks" or the roots ("Unfiled", "Tags", or even "History") to the personal toolbar from the organizer.

polvi once he learned that clicking on the star puts a the bookmark in "Unfiled" wanted to do just that:  use the organizer and move the unfiled folder to the personal toolbar.

we won't be allowing you to move "Unfiled", but copying should create a place: item for all the unfiled.

Comment 5

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

WFM. pretty sure this was fixed by bug 384370.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv