Re: Making Kmail attachments available to OOo
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On 07/27/08 09:24, andy wrote:
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> 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".
Which is perfectly reasonable.
> 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).
That needs more research on your part as to whether there's an
auto-archive occurring, what the age trigger is, and if, in fact,
that is the cut-off for the ability to read attachments.
> Be this as it may, the crux of the question is how does one include
> directories within OOo's path?
It doesn't have anything to do with OOo, but KMail. It has to tell
OOo to look "here".
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New
York is doomed."
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