What does the extension ConfirmBeforeDelete need to work with Thunderbird 128+
The extension ConfirmBeforeDelete is extremely useful. It has saved me not only from accidentally deleting messages, but also from dragging and moving folders when I didn't intend to.
I recently had to manually recover from deleting 20 messages in a search window after I had accidentally hit the delete key (while I thought my cursor was up in one of my search fields).
Really, that functionality should be a built-in feature in Thunderbird.
The latest version of ConfirmBeforeDelete is 1.9.3, released Nov. 20, 2023. Compatible with Thunderbird 115.*
What did that extension need to be compatible with Thunderbird 128+? In other words, what change(s) in Thunderbird broke it? Would the fix be something easy or will it require more significant changes?
I tried to contact the author last October (even offered to gather some donations), but have not heard back.
It looks like there was already at least one person interested in helping. Thread on github:
How to update for Thunderbird 128? How to update for Thunderbird 128?
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Ideas and suggestions can be loaded here - https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/idb-p/ideas As an aside, recovering an error is built into the Windows OS and is accessed by using the keyboard command Ctrl+Z
frisée said
Ideas and suggestions can be loaded here - https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/idb-p/ideas As an aside, recovering an error is built into the Windows OS and is accessed by using the keyboard command Ctrl+Z
Thanks for the link to make a feature request for Thunderbird. I'll do that, but I have a feeling that updating the ConfirmBeforeDelete extension (or creating a new, similar extension) may happen sooner.
As for Ctrl-Z (also Edit -> Undo from the menus), I've had inconsistent results doing that. I think sometimes that has un-done an earlier action, not the most recent one. Also, I will have to test whether it works properly for my example (where I had a search window with 20 messages highlighted and hit the delete key).
I just tested deleting a single message (not in a search window) and doing Edit->Undo Delete. While Thunderbird did restore the message, it left the original where it was in the mbox file (with an X-Mozilla-Status marker for 'has been deleted'), and created a new copy at the end of the mbox file (with a timestamp in the "From -" line giving the time I did the undelete). It is sometimes important to me to retain the original "From-" timestamp (showing when Thunderbird originally fetched the message).