Re: Aligning path for kmail and openoffice.org
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On 03/20/08 15:45, andy wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>> On 03/20/08 13:14, andy wrote:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> When I receive email attachments in kmail and go to open these in
>>> OpenOffice.org, I receive an error message informing me that the
>>> attachment can't be found. The attachment appears to be located in a
>>> /tmp directory under the .kde directory.
>>>
>>> My question is: what would be the better method of being able to open
>>> these attachments with OOo? I suspect that it might have something to do
>>> with setting the path variables, but I am really not sure.
>>>
>>> Any help please?
>>>
>>
>> Unless you explicitly save the attachment to a file, how does OOo
>> know where in some huge mbox (or Maildir or IMAP store) that some
>> random attachment (which is really encoded as base64 text) is?
>>
>> Or is there something else that either (a) I am missing, or (b) you
>> aren't telling us?
>>
> Ron
>
> I don't even know how to begin to answer your question.
>
> Up until I had to reinstall my system I could open attachments on Kmail
> using OOo without a problem. Since my recent reinstall, I haven't.
> What's the diff? Same installation candidate (Lenny) but now I can't
> open attachments.
>
> Can you clarify what you are asking me.
Oh, duh! I just re-read your OP and realized that I totally
misunderstood your email.
You mean that -- while in KMail -- if you click on Open Attachment
that it used to fire up OOo, and now it does not?
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification
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