Closed Bug 438450 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Multiple detaches can destroy data

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Mail Window Front End
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 416284

People

(Reporter: mitra_lists, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008053008 Firefox/3.0 Build Identifier: version 3.0a2pre (2008060803) If you detach a file multiple times, the 2nd and subsequent detaches fail, AND can destroy data. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open a message with an attachemnt 2.Ctrl-click and detach to desktop 3.Ctrl-click and detach to desktop a second time Actual Results: Second time generates an error message AND overwrites the original with a 0k file. Oops - data is now lost. Expected Results: Either a) gives an error message BEFORE detaching that the file is already detached. OR b) just make a copy at the new location (which means would overwrite with same file).
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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