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Drag and Drop attachments to the desktop stopped working again with Thunderbird 145. Steps to reproduce: You receive a mail with an attachment. You drag an attached file from this message and drop it onto the desktop of your Mac to download it. The attached file is not saved to the desktop (or any other folder I tried). This is on MacOS 26.1 MacMini M4. Please fix asap.

I am running Thunderbird version 128.11.0esr (64 bits) on Windows 10 Pro. I have defined, in Windows, the default program for .doc and .docx files to be LibreOffice Writer and this works fine when I click on such a file in Windows.

But when I got a docx attachment in a Thunderbird email, and clicked on it, nothing happened. When I right-click on it, it just offers to open (not to select which program to open it with). I have to save the file locally, and click on it in Windows in order to open it.

This is very frustrating, all the more so that it used to work. I tried adding the two following lines to the prefs.js file, to no avail - no change:

user_pref("network.mime-handler.external.application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document", "D:\\Program Files\\LibreOffice\\program\\swriter.exe"); user_pref("network.mime-handler.external.application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document.useSystemDefault", false);

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Hello,

When I try to save attachments from emails directly on my Computer, they never arrive at the destination folder - not individual files nor "save all attachements". Although the procedure '(left button menu - save - [navigation through file system till to the destination-folder] - save here') is "normal" and does not give any error message.

I can only save attachements, when i first open them (e.g. in word), and save them from there in its destination folder. This is quite a complicated procedure .. one should be able to save attachments directly from Thunderbird, without opening it.

What is the reason for this problem? Are there any options, is it a local problem (but it is a brandnew Laptop) or is it a bug in Thunderbird?

Best, Renate Albrecher

When T-Bird sends a message with an in-content photo, is that photo compressed to save space and transmission time?

I converted from Eudora. Eudora would compress in-content photos to save space and transmission time.

If T-Bird performs a similar action, is that compressed file saved somewhere?

I cannot open attachments directly in an email with a double click, Probably since a week or so back. I have to copy the link address and insert it into a web reader. There is no command in the settings as I can see Quite a nuisance, Best regards, Gustaf

Hi,

Where can I change in the settings the default Attachment Save(As) Folder / Directory. That Folder is also used by extract-em (for "save individual attachments"). On my installation it defaults to c:\user\myname\desktop but I can't find a way to change that location.

Another question : is there a way to disable the standard TB attachment Save(As) (shown at the bottom of a message) and replace it completely by extract-em ?

Thank you

Dear Thunderbird, I am using version 128.10.2esr and I have noticed lately that in my Inbox the email From have all been given the same incorrect senders name. This usually happens to emails that contain an attachment How do I correct this ? Thank you. Regards. Steve Hawes.

TB in WIN11. Right click on any file. In Win10, there was a "send to" option. In Win11, there's a "share" option. To send a file directly, select "show more options." The older version's menu will appear, and it will say "send to -> email recipient." Is there a way to generate an option to send files faster? When the file sending window appears from the file manager, the cursor in the message writing window doesn't move to the address field (as it does when composing a new message) but somewhere else. This is quite strange, because you automatically start typing the recipient's address, but it doesn't appear in the program. This is probably more a system issue than Mozilla's. Perhaps a registry entry or other action might work. Perhaps the submenu after right-clicking on a file, or the icon at the top next to "Copy, Paste, Cut" or in section share it.

Dear Thunderbird,

All attachments used to save on a folder when it was detached before. Without any changes done, just on updating the Thunderbird software, the attachments now detach and delete from the email, but when I check the same folder there is no file detached and saved there, while the file gets deleted from the email and lost forever.

Have put this on many forums as well as bugs but no respite, please help Mozilla, FIrefox and Thunderbird team.

This was my post on the other Mozilla forums: Dear Thunderbird,

I have been using Eudora for 20 plus years and migrated to Thunderbird after Mozilla took it over. After my donation, I have observed that the last update that you have done, has a bug.

I would always detach any attachments on my email and categorize them in my set directories for easy retrieval and I have these files since 1991. Off late when I detach a file it deletes it from the email, and saves it to my attach folder, desingated in the options menu, making my inbox file that I backup smaller and managable on a pen drive too. Now when I detach files, it deletes them from the email but the attach directory is always empty.

Please rectify this as it is causing a lot of files being lost.

I had put this up on all the mozilla firefox forums, putting up again, cause it remains unresolved.

Dear Thunderbird,

I have been using Eudora for 20 plus years and migrated to Thunderbird after Mozilla took it over. After my donation, I have observed that the last update that you have done, has a bug.

I would always detach any attachments on my email and categorize them in my set directories for easy retrieval and I have these files since 1991. Off late when I detach a file it deletes it from the email, and saves it to my attach folder, desingated in the options menu, making my inbox file that I backup smaller and managable on a pen drive too. Now when I detach files, it deletes them from the email but the attach directory is always empty.

Please rectify this as it is causing a lot of files being lost.

In version 142.0, none of the usual methods for deleting attachments is working for me. From the drop-down menu in the attachments area, "Detach all" saves the attachments but does not delete them. "Delete all" does nothing. Selecting one attachment and pressing the <delete> key does not work. Selecting one attachment and using the "delete" command from the drop-menu does not work.

Any ideas?

Thunderbird Version 142.0 will open when I chose a file to send to mail recipient using win 11, but the new email screen doesn't open so no file attaches. All my defaults are correct, there is a proper mail recipient entry in the appdata sendto file and there is a key in the registry for Thunderbird under client mail.

Не отображаются картинки в теле сообщений Настройка "Показывать вложения в теле сообщения" включена

При просмотре сообщений в списке отправленных писем, либо при получении внешних писем со скринами вставленными в тело письма не видно картинок в теле сообщения, все картинки переносятся в приложенные документы с наименованием из хаотичных символов, и также не видно какой из этих файлов в каком месте сообщения вставлен.

Просьба помочь разобраться

Версия Thunderbird - 140.1.0esr (64-разрядный)

Hello,

I am running Thunderbird 140.1.1 esr on a Win 10 Pro laptop. In the past, when I inserted an image into an email, Thunderbird offered to resize that image. Now, it just inserts the image, even if it is very large, and doesn't give me that option anymore. So I need to first resize it before adding it.

Is there a setting that will allow the resizing, or has Thunderbird changed how it handles inserted images. I tried the "Advanced Edit" option, but those changes don't "take" and the image is inserted as is.

Also - when I do try to add an image - the inbox becomes the primary window and I need to "find" the compose page to see the email. That didn't used to happen either.

Thanks for any help!

TN

I need to attach files of total size 54mb. I open the folder where the files are stored in File Explorer and select all of them. I press ENTER and it says “These are large files. It might be better to use Filelink instead.” I click Link, and it displays the uploaded image.

Thanks for your help, SweetTasha

Hope someone can resolve this "Thunderbird mystery" for me.

I just sent an email to 9 people. The message was a few paragraphs and would normally be 8.6 kb in size. (I know because I copied and pasted the body of the message into a "test" email, and TB showed 8.6 kb as the size.)

My message included an attachment of 58.0 kb in size. [It also included 3 links, but those shouldn't contribute more than a miniscule amount (just the actual letters in the link) to the size, right?]

Yet when I sent the message plus attachment (and copied myself), Thunderbird showed it as 5.3 MB (!) in size.

How can that be? Any help would be appreciated.

Andrew