Re: [Evolution] OK_someone explain this: OO Calc cell contents to Evolution image attachment

2011-03-14 Thread Carpet Nailz
Thanks to all. It's nice when a post has a definite answer. On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 15:01 +1100, Nick Jenkins wrote: > > Why does Evo turn this item into an image and make it an attachment? > > When I right click the "attachment" and open it with Image Viewer, it > > just shows the string of numbers

Re: [Evolution] OK_someone explain this: OO Calc cell contents to Evolution image attachment

2011-03-12 Thread Carpet Nailz
On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 20:06 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > Perhaps you are in [evil] HTML message composition mode? > Nope. I've got "Plain Text" selected. I get even stranger results if I select HTML mode. > How are you cutting-n-pasting? I higglight the cell, Ctrl-C, click in > the compose

[Evolution] OK_someone explain this: OO Calc cell contents to Evolution image attachment

2011-03-12 Thread Carpet Nailz
I'm just trying to copy and past a phone number (well, two of them in one cell: 222 222 ; 333 333 ) from a cell in a OO Cals spreadsheet to the contents of an Evolution email message. Simple, huh? I copy stuff to Evolution messages all the time. SO... Why does Evo turn this item into an i

Re: [Evolution] tomboy and evolution

2011-01-10 Thread Carpet Nailz
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 15:06 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: > Am Montag, den 10.01.2011, 07:54 -0500 schrieb Carpet Nailz: > > This might work OK--I'd need to try it for a while. But the problem is, > > Tomboy isn't picking up any of my old (pre-Ubuntu installation) notes.

[Evolution] tomboy and evolution

2011-01-10 Thread Carpet Nailz
Can someone explain this: I've been using Tomboy with my openSUSE install and enjoying it. After I installed Ubuntu 10.04, I would get an error message on startup, to the effect that Tomboy couldn't be opened or found (I've forgotten the exact message). So I went to Synaptic Pacakage Manager and t

[Evolution] error storing folder 'folder'

2011-01-09 Thread Carpet Nailz
Is there a bottom line to this problem? I just spent a half hr reading various reports about this problem (seems to go back many years) and all I see are work-arounds. Did I miss a solution or is there none? Is it just a Ubuntu problem? I switched to Ubuntu 10.04, which provides Evolution 2.28.3,

Re: [Evolution] won't expunge/empty trash

2010-06-30 Thread Carpet Nailz
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 15:35 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 13:49 -0400, Carpet Nailz wrote: > > removing ~/.evolution/mail/local/folders.db seems to have done it. > > Thanks. > > > > Btw, What does 'evolution --force-shutdown'

Re: [Evolution] won't expunge/empty trash

2010-06-30 Thread Carpet Nailz
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 13:04 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 10:56 -0400, Carpet Nailz wrote: > > I removed the two files from .evolution > > ( "~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.ev-summary" and > > "~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox

Re: [Evolution] won't expunge/empty trash

2010-06-30 Thread Carpet Nailz
/dev/sda3) is only 23% full. Thanks. On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 09:43 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 07:58 -0400, Carpet Nailz wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 00:01 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 22:27 -04

Re: [Evolution] won't expunge/empty trash

2010-06-30 Thread Carpet Nailz
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 00:01 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 22:27 -0400, Carpet Nailz wrote: > > I keep getting an error message when I try to Empty Trash or Expunge > > Folder. > > What is the error message? Without knowing that, we can o

[Evolution] won't expunge/empty trash

2010-06-29 Thread Carpet Nailz
I keep getting an error message when I try to Empty Trash or Expunge Folder. I also tried to reduce the size of a large folder by moving some mail to a different folder and got the same kind of error message. There are now about 175 emails in my Trash folder that won't go away. What could be caus

[Evolution] Evolution suddenly loses/forgets passwords

2010-06-23 Thread Carpet Nailz
What would cause Evolution, in the middle of the morning after running nicely all morning, to suddenly decide that it doesn't know the passwords to get into my mail server? I did nothing to Evolution or the settings that could cause this. ___ evolution

[Evolution] over-midnight entries

2010-03-27 Thread Carpet Nailz
A nice feature would be an easier way to enter over-midnight entries: that is, something that starts at 11pm and goes to12:30am. Right now, it seems that one has to change the day on the second part of the entry and the entry then goes into the "All Day Event" category. We're not really dealing wit

Re: [Evolution] PDF attachments

2010-03-12 Thread Carpet Nailz
It sounds like your issue is the one I went through back in December. See the thread "Opening pdf attachments" that starts Dec 15th (check the list archives). On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 21:25 +0200, kwstas wrote: > hi, > > i've been having problems with some pdf attachments that i receive of > which f

[Evolution] web links in email not working

2010-02-14 Thread Carpet Nailz
I reinstalled Firefox and now when I click on a URL in a piece of Evolution mail, while Firefox opens, the URL doesn't get transferred and so I have to copy and paste it in. I can't find where I would set that to happen. I'm assuming that's an Evolution setting, but maybe not. Thanks. Nailz ___

Re: [Evolution] Opening pdf attachments

2009-12-16 Thread Carpet Nailz
Thanks to all. I think collectively you've given me good clarification of something I was mis-understanding. C.Nailz On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 12:17 +0100, Milan Crha wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 10:49 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > The email I'm focusing on included this statement in

Re: [Evolution] Opening pdf attachments

2009-12-15 Thread Carpet Nailz
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 00:23 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 17:30 -0500, Carpet Nailz wrote: > > I don't think it's the solution, though. In the case of the email with > > two pdfs attached, they both are type=application/pdf (according to

Re: [Evolution] Opening pdf attachments

2009-12-15 Thread Carpet Nailz
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 16:19 -0500, Art Alexion wrote: > On 12/15/2009 Carpet Nailz wrote: > > I see lots of posts about similar problems, but there doesn't seem to > > be > > a solution that I've found. > > > > I'm running Evo 2.24.1.1, wh

[Evolution] Opening pdf attachments

2009-12-15 Thread Carpet Nailz
I see lots of posts about similar problems, but there doesn't seem to be a solution that I've found. I'm running Evo 2.24.1.1, which is the latest version for openSuse 11.1. When I get a pdf attachment, I often do not get the option to open the attachment with either Acrobat reader or Evince. One

Re: [Evolution] One folder suddenly messed up

2009-11-19 Thread Carpet Nailz
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 12:30 -0500, Carpet Nailz wrote: > One of my folders has somehow gotten messed up. About a month's worth of > emails are missing, although the titles show in the list of emails. But > when I click on the titles I get connected to a very different piece of > m

[Evolution] One folder suddenly messed up

2009-11-16 Thread Carpet Nailz
One of my folders has somehow gotten messed up. About a month's worth of emails are missing, although the titles show in the list of emails. But when I click on the titles I get connected to a very different piece of mail. That is, for about the month prior to when the emails are missing, the title

Re: [Evolution] suddenly junking good mail

2009-09-02 Thread Carpet Nailz
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 18:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 18:52 -0400, Carpet Nailz wrote: > > After years of working fine, Evolution (2.22.1.1 on openSUSE 11.0) > > suddenly began putting email from my wife (coming from the same mail > > se

[Evolution] suddenly junking good mail

2009-09-01 Thread Carpet Nailz
After years of working fine, Evolution (2.22.1.1 on openSUSE 11.0) suddenly began putting email from my wife (coming from the same mail server that I get email from) in junk. I haven't changed any of the Evolution settings. Anyone have any idea what might cause this? And how to fix it--marking the

Re: [Evolution] suddenly empty sent folder

2009-07-24 Thread Carpet Nailz
folder. I tried to copy and past them into it but nothing would paste. On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 20:15 -0400, Carpet Nailz wrote: > Any idea what might cause my "Sent" folder to be suddenly empty? All the > other folder are OK. Last time I looked there were probably over 1000 > ema

[Evolution] suddenly empty sent folder

2009-07-24 Thread Carpet Nailz
Any idea what might cause my "Sent" folder to be suddenly empty? All the other folder are OK. Last time I looked there were probably over 1000 emails in the folder, so I can't have selected all of them and deleted them--at any rate they would then be in the "Trash" folder, which hasn't been emptied