612950 - Opening attachments leaves a copy of that attachment, normally on the desktop

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 311292

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[steinar]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X; U; nb) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.63
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; nb-NO; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6

When I open an attachment, the document is saved.

PLEASE read on before marking this as another duplicate, ESPECIALLY of bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311292

I know that this has been reported a GREAT number of times, over a period of many years. Many of them have been called duplicate bugs. The oldest one is from 2005-ish.  The issue still remains the same:

Some of the confusion about the bug I mentioned above (311292) is that people seem to think this has anything to do with not being ABLE to specify a temp download location.

The issue is that a user should not HAVE TO specify one.

When opening an attachment, the temp location should not be an issue to the user.  The fact that it is even saved AT ALL should not be visible to the user!

The user has only requested to open the attachment, NOT save it IN ANY WAY.

Please, this can be fixed. EASILY.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Double click an attachment (or right-click and choose Open)
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
The attachment is opened, but also saved.  In a fresh TB install, on a new Mac, this is on the user's Desktop, quickly leading to clutter.

Expected Results:  
The file should be saved in a location invisible to the user.