-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH4tXsS9HxQb37XmcRAmdhAKDRoUfZlCEHhQEgLkBYB75FmtT6kQCfSL+v nIC5eN1B/6gLix5Zjs8anyQ= =XBLX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
