modify attachment already in drafts - problem?
Hello: w11p auto updated, tbird dev build 128.5.2 esr 64bit (only, no stable here!), so...1) I DON'T know if this is a "my" problem or a bug. I also don't know if this issue happens in stable. So, 2) Do I HAVE to use the top menu item - message>attachments>delete- (the attachment is already hilighted)?
What I needed to do: modify the already-attached pdfs to add signature.
-History: I learned the hard way that (apparently-- note the "me?" or bug, & dev build, above), that drag & drop* do not work. Moving on from that, I tried merely 1- highlighting the attachment, & hitting the delete key 2) using the R mouse button & using the "delete attachment" choice. 3) I may have tried other things but geezer excuse, sorry, I can't remember what else. They all failed, the attachments remained. 4) I ended up just creating a new msg, pasting the msg body into that new msg & editting the pdfs using Mozilla pdf built-in editor (Note: THANKS VERY MUCH, MOZ STAFF, FOR IMPLEMENTING PDF EDITOR!!!), then re-attaching the pdfs (always for this prob, as attachment).
- ideally, what I wanted to do was merely drag the attachment to the desktop, edit it, then redrag & drop the editted pdf back into the t-bird attachment pane, and tbird would recognize this modified file & replace the old unmodified file w/the modified one. Absolutely no go on my try on this. (By "no go" here, I mean that the modified file wasn't there. The original pdf w/o signature stayed, the modified pdf w/signature added never got into attachments. File name remained the same.)
So, what do I want ? Simply for context & other non-top menu items to work, to mod or delete a file in attachments. Thank you, stay safe.
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Attachments in an email are a continuous mime encoded block of text. To put it bluntly the attachment ceases to exist as a discrete file at the time it is attached. For this reason you can not edit them.
When you view or save or open an attachment, Thunderbird decodes the MIME text, builds a file and writes it to the system temp folder. Then it starts trying to do what you have asked. SO I suggest if you need to edit the file on your drafts that you detach it as an attachment (the attachment is discarded) and attach the edited file.