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Re: Making Kmail attachments available to OOo



Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 07/26/08 19:15, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:20:53AM +0100, andy wrote:
Hello

On my wife's Etch machine, running KDE, she is experiencing a problem opening attachments with OOo (any component - writer, impress, calc, etc.) once they have been in her inbox for a while. I *think* that what is happening is that Kmail stores these in .kde/tmp (not the correct path) and for whatever reason OOo is just not searching there to open the attachments. Instead, it throws an error message that <filename> does not exist (or cannot be found - sorry I am doing this from memory).

How do I go about fixing this and ensuring that the directory Kmail uses to store attachments is in OOo's search path?
Ummmmm, not exactly sure what you mean but what about saving the
attachment first and *then* opening it in your preferred application.

Could OP be referring to right-clicking on the attachment?

If so, I can't see how the age of the email would be relevant.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Chris - if the attachment is saved, then OOo can open it easily enough from the /home or wherever it is saved to. However, this is only a partial solution because my wife doesn't always want to save the attachment and may just want to read it "on the fly".

Ron - I have no idea why (or really *if*) the age of the email is a factor. It just seems that with KMail, at least, an attachment in a newly arrived email can be read via a right-click open attachment, but once they have been stored for a while, can no longer be opened like that but must be saved as Chris pointed out. I suspected that it may have something to do with an archiving process that KMail runs, but this is just a guess (and uneducated at that).

Be this as it may, the crux of the question is how does one include directories within OOo's path?

Cheers

Andy

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