"Save All" for same-named attachments defaults to only one saved file
Bug #1261351 reported by
Matthew Paul Thomas
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Thunderbird |
Confirmed
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Unknown
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thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
thunderbird 1:24.2.
1. Send yourself a message containing more than one attachment with the same filename, e.g. "image.jpeg".
2. Open the message in Thunderbird, and choose "Save All".
3. Select a folder to save the attachments in, and choose "Open" [sic].
What happens: For n attachments, n–1 "Confirm" alerts appear with the text: "{pathname} already exists. Do you want to replace it?"
If you choose "Cancel", a "Save Attachment" dialog appears for choosing a different path/filename.
But the default is "OK", and if you choose that each attachment overwrites the previous one, something that nobody would ever want.
summary: |
- "Save All" for same-named attachments results in only one saved file + "Save All" for same-named attachments defaults to only one saved file |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
importance: | Medium → Unknown |
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Thunderbird 24.2.0, thunderbird 1:24.2. 0+build1- 0ubuntu0. 13.10.1, Ubuntu 13.10
1. Send yourself a message containing at least two attachments with the same filename, e.g. "image.jpeg".
2. Open the message in Thunderbird, and choose "Save All".
3. Select a folder to save the attachments in, and choose "Open" (bug 531777).
What happens: For n attachments, n–1 "Confirm" alerts appear with the text: "{pathname} already exists. Do you want to replace it?"
If you choose "Cancel", instead of cancelling, a "Save Attachment" dialog appears for choosing a different path/filename (bug 678345).
However, the default is "OK", and if you choose that, each attachment overwrites the previous one that was saved just a fraction of a second earlier -- something that nobody would ever want.
Not to be confused with bug 448580. Optionally letting you specify a different name for each attachment would be a slightly faster workaround for this bug than just saving all the attachments individually. However, it would not fix this bug, which is that the *default* behavior for "Save All" is to save only one of the attachments. That shouldn't even be an option.
[Originally reported as <http:// launchpad. net/bugs/ 1261351>.]