Bug 122976

Summary: Rename attachments when saving all
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Eugene Nine <enine>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Slackware   
OS: Linux   
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Description Eugene Nine 2006-03-02 15:02:41 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from:    Slackware Packages
OS:                Linux

When saving attachments if a file with the same name already exists a dailog is presented asking to overwrite it or not for each duplicate name.  When saving individual a normal save as dialog is presented allowing renaming of the file before saving.  Can the same dialog be shown for each file during the save all instead of the overwrite/cancel options now.
Example, I received 4 e-mails from my brother with pictures attached from our grandfathers funeral.  He uses Windows which has a badly designed interface for getting pictures from digital cameras where each time you plug in the camera or memory card Windows creates a new folder and names all the pictures in the folder "picture 001", "picture 002", etc starting over with "picture 001" in each folder.  My brother sent me 4 e-mails with 20-25 pictures each and I saved all to a folder then attempted to save all from the second e-mail and had to cancel 20 times when all 20 pictures were the same name.  So then had to create 4 new folders to save those pictures in so I could save all each time or save each picture one at a time so I could rename them.  
This was a large amount of duplicate names so it was a worst case situation, but if there were several attachments in a message and only one or two were duplicates and you cancelled out of the save all dialog when it hit the duplicate then you would have to remember and find the duplicate so you could save and rename it.  If the rename dialog were there instead of simply the overwrite/cancel it would be easier.
Comment 1 Bram Schoenmakers 2007-03-14 22:08:41 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45023 ***