437388 - Drag and drop of attachments in encrypted mails drops zero length attachments

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Simon Woods]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.14 (20080421)

When dragging an attachment in an encrypted message from the message pane to the explorer the created file contains zero bytes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive encrypted mail with attachment (PKI)
2. Select attachement and drag this to the Windows file explorer


Actual Results:  
Dropped file is created with length zero

Expected Results:  
File should contain attachement

Instead of using drag and drop it is necessary to use the save as menu item

Comment 1

[Christopher Schultz]

I have this problem with tb3.0b2 and the recent nightlies for 3.0. See bug #375728 for more.

Comment 2

[Christopher Schultz]

I recently upgraded to 3.0b3 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Thunderbird/3.0b3) on Vista and drag-and-drop appears to work on attachments for both encrypted (enigmail 0.96a, GnuPG 1.4.9/MingW32) /and/ non-encrypted messages.

But:
- multiple-attachment drag and drop doesn't work as expected (only the file you were pointing to when initiating the multi-file-drag is saved)
- dragging-and-dropping a file that will replace one that already exists results in Windows Explorer (on Vista) to report that the new file's size is 0 bytes (for both encrypted and non-encrypted attachments)

Comment 3

[Christopher Schultz]

Er, sorry: to be clear: explorer says that the file size /will be/ 0 bytes if you replace the existing file. Choosing "Copy and Replace" does give you a correctly-sized file.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Corey, can you reproduce this?