745051 - Save as for attachments does not work to missing locations (network)

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

Description

[mhfrey]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
Build ID: 20120312181643

Steps to reproduce:

Tried to save a file to a windows UNC location.  This works when Thunderbird can access the location, but it was missing when I was on a different network.  Clearing messenger.save.dir entry clears the problem.  This can happen when a user saves a file to a unc such as \\foo\my_stuff and then on a network where foo does not exist tries to save an attachment.  This causes Thunderbird to hang.


Actual results:

Thunderbird hangs.


Expected results:

The explorer save file dialog should have opened or the file should have been saved.

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to mhfrey from comment #0)
See bug 442908 & bug 714267.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

does Firefox hangs too when you save to \\unc ?

Comment 3

[mhfrey]

If the unc link is available there is no problem.  This only happens when the unc link is unavailable because the computer is on a different network.  This happens when I save to a unc location at my work then carry my laptop home and try to save a file from Thunderbird.