706189 - Attachments save copy when clicked bypassing save option

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 238789

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Yadin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111104165243

Steps to reproduce:

Double click attachment in the pane at the bottom of the message


Actual results:

The file opened but not before saving a copy of it to the Desktop


Expected results:

1. The file should have opened without needing to save a second copy.  All attachments are already in a local folder in the Thunderbird directory structure, creating a copy before opening is pointless and annoying.

2. Thunderbird should have prompted me where to save the file as that is the option I have set in the preferences.  Instead of prompting, it saved it to the default location that was last selected, despite being disabled.

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to yxf4 from comment #0)
What type of attachment is this? Did you configure that type to be opened by Thunderbird? Check: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Actions_for_attachment_file_types

Comment 2

[Yadin]

The information on that page appears to be outdated as it is not accurate to the current version.  It is also irrelevant to the described behavior.  The file type does not matter (i.e. occurs with all types, regardless of handler actions), the issue is the improper saving of a second copy for no reason, and bypassing the settings chosen.

Comment 3

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to Yadin from comment #2)
I don't get this behavior when trying to open an attachment. I have a PDF file attached to an e-mail, I assigned it to be opened with okular (a PDF reader for KDE), and it opens when I double-click the attachment. The configuration is done through Thunderbird preferences -> Attachments.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0
Build ID: 20111105021619