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UI suggestion: Prevent Thunderbird from executing multiple commands at once

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anacond23
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Dear Thunderbird team,

yesterday I had a somewhat scary moment: I issued the "Archive" command by pressing "A" to archive all my mails from the Inbox, which took about 1-2 minutes. So far, so good. During this process, I changed the sound volume of my Mac using the keyboard buttons, which are right above the Backspace key. So I wasn't precise enough and hit the Backspace key while Thunderbird was archiving. That was a bad idea, because Thunderbird then started to delete all selected messages at the same time as it was archiving them! I was able to recover some e-mail from the Trash afterwards.

So I'd suggest that Thunderbird only allow one command to be executed at a time, lest they interfere with each other. Otherwise, I love Thunderbird.

Thanks for looking into this, regards,

Arthur

Dear Thunderbird team, yesterday I had a somewhat scary moment: I issued the "Archive" command by pressing "A" to archive all my mails from the Inbox, which took about 1-2 minutes. So far, so good. During this process, I changed the sound volume of my Mac using the keyboard buttons, which are right above the Backspace key. So I wasn't precise enough and hit the Backspace key while Thunderbird was archiving. That was a bad idea, because Thunderbird then started to delete all selected messages at the same time as it was archiving them! I was able to recover some e-mail from the Trash afterwards. So I'd suggest that Thunderbird only allow one command to be executed at a time, lest they interfere with each other. Otherwise, I love Thunderbird. Thanks for looking into this, regards, Arthur

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david
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Actually, I believe it had stopped archiving, and had already selected the messages, and then followed the new instruction of deleting.

anacond23
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Thanks, but in fact, the status bar at the bottom alternated between archiving and moving to the Trash every half second. So the two operations must have been executed simultaneously. I was able to move the messages from the Trash to the Archive later on, so I believe nothing was lost (except that I got a lot of duplicates in the Archive for some reason). Also in the Trash, I had about 1,300 new empty messages with a date of Jan 1, 1970. These were probably archived before the deletion operation could move them to the Trash.

Modified by anacond23

Wayne Mery
Wayne Mery
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anacond23, thanks for posting this issue.

If you still see a problem when using version 115, please create a bug report https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Thunderbird

Thanks