Closed Bug 655983 Opened 14 years ago Closed 13 years ago

.eml files created via drag&drop cannot be renamed with the <F2>-key

Categories

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
OS Integration
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: marco.justforfun, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.65 Safari/534.24 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 When dropping eMails into a ffolder on my hard-drive (ntfs) their name cannot be manually altered by pressing <F2>. Still they can be remanamed by using the console or dropping a file with the same name from a different folder into it. Windows build-in rename does work. Pressing <F2> does produce no result (i.e. error-message), file properties show no write-protection. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Drop am eMail from TB into a folder 2. Press <F2> 3. Curse :) Actual Results: Nothing Expected Results: File marked to be renamed.
Why do you consider this a bug in TB ? can you look at the file's attribute is one set that prevents explorer to rename via f2 ? Can you rename via f2 if Thunderbird is shutdown ?
TB created the file, similar problems have not been experienced so far with other programs. File-attributes are normal, as described above. No, I cannot.
I'm unable to reproduce this with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10, a message drag-and-dropped from the Inbox message list creates a subject.eml file which I can immediately or later rename to anything else using the F2 key. I've tested on a restricted user account and dragging to both the desktop or a folder in C:\Users with NTFS file system. I'm also unable to reproduce on Windows XP. Do you see this only with dragged-and-dropped messages (all the time?), or does it also apply to any attachments you drag-and-drop from a message to the desktop or into a folder? If the latter doesn't apply, select Message > Forward As > Attachment on a message and forward it to yourself, then drag-and-drop the .eml attachment from the forwarded message. If you can't rename it in this case either, it's related to ".eml" files in general (maybe), otherwise to the process of saving a full message in this way. But then, I wouldn't know what may be causing either of these conditions...
Further testing showed the following: An email without attachment can be renamed. An email which had an attachment (it was deleted using TB) cannot be altered.
Sorry, that still works for me as intended. I've deleted the attachment from a message in a local folder, then used drag-and-drop to save it to my desktop. Renaming with F2 worked without any problems.
Problem persist here even after several reboots and with different emails :(
I've tried it on a different Windows 7 machine and also with the current TB 3.3 development build (20110510 trunk nightly), but I can't find a scenario by which the dropped attachment remains unrenameable with the F2 button. It also doesn't depend on using icons/thumbnails or lists/details in the folder view. Thus, unless it can be narrowed down which NTFS attribute might be causing the problem here and how it is used or set by Thunderbird (if at all), it will be hard to figure out what may be blocking the F2-rename action. As another possibility, do you have any anti-virus software which may be interfering? I'm not sure how likely that would be, given that you can still rename the file in other ways (just not with F2), which should be equally prohibited if such security software has a lock on that file.
Seems that there is a misunderstanding. The attachment is deleted and the EMAIL is stored in the ntfs-filesystem. and henceforth cannot be renamed using <F2>.
Yes, that's what I did: 1) create a message with an attachment, sent to myself; 2) delete the attachment from the message in the Inbox; 3) drag-and-drop that message to desktop or folder; 4) try to rename that file using the F2 key. Do you have other steps to reproduce in mind?
I understood "...but I can't find a scenario by which the dropped attachment remains unrenameable with the F2 button." as if you were testing with the attachment. Security software used is microsoft security essentials, internal firewall and threatfire.
GMS, you say in comment 0 that you get an error message when trying to rename the .eml file using F2. Can you post the text of that error message? GMS, can you forward (as attachment, not inline) one of the messages that you experience this problem with, via private mail? Note that reporter uses win *64*, could that make a difference? This is reported against TB 3.1.x, are we still supporting that branch?
(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #11) > This is reported against TB 3.1.x, are we still supporting that branch? My understanding is that 3.1.18 will be the last version on the 3.1 branch.
(In reply to Jim Porter (:squib) from comment #12) > (In reply to Thomas D. from comment #11) > > This is reported against TB 3.1.x, are we still supporting that branch? > > My understanding is that 3.1.18 will be the last version on the 3.1 branch. Sorry, apparently it's supported for "security and stability" until April 24.
GMS, do you still see this bug on recent version of TB (TB12)? If yes, can you answer comment 11 please? I don't think this bug is going anywhere, and it doesn't look like a problem produced by TB.
I don't even fully understand the actual result here, because comment 0 is ambiguous: - What exactly happens when you press F2 on selected and focused .eml file in Windows Explorer? Nothing? Or do you get an error message? - And is the file focused at all? Maybe something is just snatching the focus away?
(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #15) > I don't even fully understand the actual result here, because comment 0 is > ambiguous: > > - What exactly happens when you press F2 on selected and focused .eml file > in Windows Explorer? Nothing? Or do you get an error message? > - And is the file focused at all? Maybe something is just snatching the > focus away? File was fcussed and nothing happened.
(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #11) > GMS, you say in comment 0 that you get an error message when trying to > rename the .eml file using F2. Can you post the text of that error message? > > GMS, can you forward (as attachment, not inline) one of the messages that > you experience this problem with, via private mail? > > Note that reporter uses win *64*, could that make a difference? > This is reported against TB 3.1.x, are we still supporting that branch? Windows profuced no error message or log entry. Unfortunately I cannot provide e-mail, for I moved away from windows and the error did not occur under MacOS.
Reporter is no longer using windows, and nobody was ever able to reproduce this. It's also unlikely that it's a thunderbird problem. -> wfm
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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