Re: Aligning path for kmail and openoffice.org
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On 03/20/08 15:55, andy wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> Yep, that's about the size of it. So, I'm baffled. As I said, I think
> that it has something to do with setting the paths, but I don't know how
> to do that for these two apps.
Ah. Your email was a bit on the jumbled side.
> Any suggestions?
You need to set the correct file associations. Somewhere in Konq,
maybe? (Since I don't use KDE, that's beyond my expertise.)
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification
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