448576 - Attachment "Detach..." menu item buggily invokes "Save All Attachments" function

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 479200

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Richard Mlynarik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.16 (20080707)

(I have no idea whether this problem is Macintosh UI specific or more generally broken.)

I have a test message with two attachments.  (It happens to be in my primary Drafts folder, but that's irrelevant.)  It is displayed in the message pane of a normal three-pane (Folders/Summary/Message) Thunderbird window.

I click-right (or control-click-left on a one-button Mac) on one of the attachments to bring up a contextual menu and select "Detach..."

I am invariably presented with a pop-up dialog box with window title
"Save All Attachments", prompting me for a directory only, not a single filename for a single attachment as I expect.

This appears to be the same dialog that is used if I click on the "Detach All..." menu item.

See screen snaps attached to this report.

Something appears to be wired up incorrectly deep in Mozilla UI Twisty Passages Hell somewhere.

Bug 315086 may or may not have something to do with this; it is unclear to me.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Display message with attachments.
2. Click-right on attachment icon.
3. Select "Detach ..." from pop-up menu
Actual Results:  
A dialog which appears to be that from the "Save All..." menu item is displayed, with window title "Save All Attachments", and not allowing a filename to be specified.


Expected Results:  
A dialog titled "Save detached attachment" asking the user for a destination filename (not just directory!) with a default filename based upon the attachment.

So many attachment context menu bugs...

Comment 1

[Richard Mlynarik]

Attachment: Yes, I am selecting the correct menu item

Comment 2

[Richard Mlynarik]

Attachment: But the wrong action is taken by Mac TB (Tuberculosis?) 2.0.0.16

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Tried with all extensions disabled?

Comment 4

[Stefan Plewako [:stef]]

I can confirm that with linux trunk builds (and windows ones as well).

Comment 5

[Rohan Carly]

I use TB 2.0.0.19 on *Windows*. This happens even when there is only one file attached.

Comment 6

[David von Oheimb]

The bug still exists in TB 2.0.0.23 and on TB3.0b4: when selecting "Detch..." on an attachment, I am asked for a name of a directory, rather then a file name for the attachment.

I suspect that this bug is due to a wrong way of "solving" the problem reported in Bug 315086: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315086
The whole code for saving/deleting/detaching attachments seems to be pretty broken.
A good hint on a potential solution is given in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479200

Comment 7

[David von Oheimb]

"Platform" should be changed to "All". Don't know how to do this myself.

Comment 8

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Indeed you seem to want bug 479200. 

I can confirm the behavior, but i don't think it's wrong for multi-selection. For when only one attachment is selected there is bug 479200.