531268 - Delete files to Recycle Bin

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, enhancement)

Description

[Arvy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB6; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091121 Thunderbird/3.0

Suggestion: When TB deletes a file, the file is not sent to the Windows Recycle Bin. This is important to avoid accidental deletions, since there's no way to recover the file.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Recover a deleted file in the Recycle Bin.

Comment 1

[Josiah Bruner [:jsbruner]]

(In reply to Arvy from comment #0)
> Suggestion: When TB deletes a file, the file is not sent to the Windows
> Recycle Bin. This is important to avoid accidental deletions, since there's
> no way to recover the file.

Except there is. :)
One can simply undo (Ctrl+Z) the deletion, to recover the file within Thunderbird. In addition, most IMAP mail is sent to the server's Trash folder, which can also be recovered. I don't see any real benefit in moving additional mail to a location on the computer.

(People who trash a lot of mail will quickly fill up their computer)

Marking as WONTFIX. Thanks for the suggestion though!