Open Bug 187091 Opened 22 years ago Updated 2 years ago

save all attachments needs overwrite all option

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, enhancement)

enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: gav, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 I regularly receive emails with attachments that supercede early attached documents - like pricelists. I save these over the top of the previous documents. Attachments > Save All creates a confirm overwrite dialog for each an every attachment in the email that is overwriting a file on the hard drive. In the confirm dialog 'xxx already exists. Do you want to replace it? Yes Cancel' I would like an additional button 'Yes to All' so I don't have to keep pressing for every attachment I want to overwrite. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Find an email with multiple attachments that are already saved on the local filesystem 2. Use Attachments > Save All to attempt to write over them 3. Repeatedly hit yes when prompted for each file Expected Results: In addtion to yes/cancel on the confirm overwrite dialog, there should be a 'yes to all' button that forces all email attachments being saved to overwrite the file system copies. For an email with four attachments, that means 1 buttonpress instead of four.
Confirming with build 2003-01-02-05 on Mac OS X 10.2.2, RedHat 8.0 and Windows 2000.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Severity: normal → enhancement
Product: MailNews → Core
see TB Bug 259921
Assignee: mscott → sspitzer
QA Contact: stephend
sorry for the spam. making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs. filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.
Assignee: sspitzer → nobody
QA Contact: attachments
Product: Core → MailNews Core
This is still an issue in Thunderbird version 3.1.1, which I upgraded to yesterday. The 'Yes to all' option, requested by Gavin (above, the first comment) is something I would also like.
Bug 448588 seems to be proposed to be closed as a dup of this one. I have a point more related to 448588, but assume that this is still the relevant place to raise the issue. I would like to request the date stamp of the file to be overwritten be displayed in the error message. It can be helpful in some situations, especially (e.g.) where a file has been up-issued several times and you are uncertain of the status of the one on disc when going through an old thread tidying up and clearing out attachments. It does no harm to display it and it may be helpful information.
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Hardware: x86 → All
Severity: normal → S3
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