512453 - Not all attachment downloads are logged in the Download manager

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 442068

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Ian MacLaren]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: Thunderbird/version 2.0.0.23 (20090812)

I have set up Thunderbird so that the Download Manager is opened if I download an attachment (a bit like for Firefox, since it then makes it easier to find and launch the file after download).  This works most of the time, but sometimes, either a file attachment downloads without triggering the download manager, or as just happened, I downloaded two attachments from a message with the Download Manager already open, and neither of them were logged in the download manager.

I have no idea why some attachments are logged and some are not, the affected attachments today were an xls and a doc file, but there is no rhyme or reason I can identify.

The occurence of this bug is certainly frequent, but not with every attachment.  It is happens less than 50% of the time but probably more than 10%.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Set up user_pref("browser.download.manager.closeWhenDone", false);
2.  Open a message with attachments
3.  Right click on attachment and select "Save As", and define a suitable file name / save location.  Click OK.
4.  See if the Downloads window opens or not
Actual Results:  
Most of the time it opens the download manager and logs the attachment download
Sometimes it doesn't

Expected Results:  
Should open download manager (if not already open) and log the download every time

Comment 1

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Ian could be a dupe of bug #442068?

Comment 2

[Ian MacLaren]

Could be, I'll look at file size in future and see if this triggers it..

Comment 3

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Ok, now I close this as dupe.

>Could be, I'll look at file size in future and see if this triggers it..

Feel free to reopen it if I'm wrong.