Can't 'Attach' files to email

[ST]

Hello,

When I click on the Attach button to try to attach a 'file.' I will see
about 2 or 3 seconds of hard drive activity, but nothing else happens!
There is no menu that pops up allowing me to Browse to the appropriate
file. Now, if I click on Attach a 'Web Page,'then a menu does pop up
and I can insert a URL.

So I'm unable to attach any files to my emails.

Suggestions please?

Thanks,

ST

[clay]

Not a solution, a workaround.
Drag and drop the attachment into the area where attachments normally
show up... to the right of the 'TO:' email addresses.

I find, more often than not, I'm messing with whatever I want to email
before heading over to Thunderbird, so it's convenient to drag and drop
rather than browse to it.

Also take advantage of the Send To>Email option from within many aps on
Windows... Word, Excel, etc.

[Louis Li]

Suggestion: disable any add-ons and try again, if problem solved,
re-enable your add-ons one by one to see which one causing the problem.

Louis

[Vijay Aravamudhan]

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I have faced the same issue (though not in TB5 - more like TB 2.x/3.x) when I
had traversed (through TB) while attaching a file from a network share for 1
email, then disconnecting from the said network share, and trying to attach a
different file for a different email. TB (at least that version) used to "store"
the last directory where an attachment was made from. This caused similar issues.

Looking at the config editor, the key "mail.compose.attach.dir" might be the one
that needed resetting (I know that I resorted to this way back when I had the
same issue - and it got solved - just not 100% sure of the exact config key that
I reset.)

HTH,

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Thanks, Vijay

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[ST]

On 7/13/2011 12:22 AM, The ever esteemed Vijay Aravamudhan replied with
great sincerity:

Hello,

Thank you all for the replies and the suggestions. That problem now
seems intermittent; however, now when I send a new post or a reply I can
only send just one. If I try to send a second email or post the To: and
Subject lines, they are grayed out and I can't enter anything in them.
When I close and restart TBird then I can once more send one email or
make one post?!

Thanks again,

ST

[wiza...@gmail.com]

I had the same problem. Disabeling Addons helped. After that searched which of the Addons resulted this kind of problem. Found out it was Mail Tweak (I use it to hide personal folders). So there you go. I'll try to make it work now without causing the problem any more.