From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:00:40 AET-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1739 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Tuesday 04 November 2008 Number 1739 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Attachment handling in Thunderbird : Peter Moylan 2 Re: Attachment handling in Thunderbird : Dennis Nolan 3 Re: Attachment handling in Thunderbird : Peter Moylan 4 Re: Attachment handling in Thunderbird : Peter Moylan **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:08:26 +1100 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: Attachment handling in Thunderbird Peter Moylan wrote: > I've suddenly been struck by the same problem that someone mentioned > on this list a few weeks ago. No change in version, I just copied a > working Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 from my old computer to my new computer. > (That suggests that the bug is something to do with the profiles, > rather than with the code.) The "Download Actions" listbox is empty, > and there is no way to add new actions. > > Did anyone ever find a fix for this? > In partial answer to my own question: I've partially solved this for Firefox. I browsed to file://D:/accounts/tax/2008/tax0708.doc (which happens to be a document that I created myself in OpenOffice), and then answered the "open with" question by navigating to soffice.exe in the appropriate directory. I also specified "also do this in future for *.doc". (That wasn't precisely the option - the dialogue in question has now disappeared from my screen - but I hope you'll work out what I mean.) That's solved the *.doc problem for Firefox. It hasn't solved anything for Thunderbird. I did discover that if you double-click on the "Extensions" title in the "Download Actions" section then you get a dialogue that lets you specify how to handle files with this extension. That, however, turns out to be useless, because it only applies to the currently selected extension. If the listbox is empty, as it is in our case, there's no extension to work with. -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:57:14 +1100 From: Dennis Nolan Subject: Re: Attachment handling in Thunderbird Try creating an dummy file with the required extension and see if you can then set the dialogue. Regards Dennis. Peter Moylan wrote: > Peter Moylan wrote: >> I've suddenly been struck by the same problem that someone mentioned >> on this list a few weeks ago. No change in version, I just copied a >> working Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 from my old computer to my new computer. >> (That suggests that the bug is something to do with the profiles, >> rather than with the code.) The "Download Actions" listbox is empty, >> and there is no way to add new actions. >> >> Did anyone ever find a fix for this? >> > In partial answer to my own question: > > I've partially solved this for Firefox. I browsed to > file://D:/accounts/tax/2008/tax0708.doc > (which happens to be a document that I created myself in OpenOffice), > and then answered the "open with" question by navigating to > soffice.exe in the appropriate directory. I also specified "also do > this in future for *.doc". (That wasn't precisely the option - the > dialogue in question has now disappeared from my screen - but I hope > you'll work out what I mean.) > > That's solved the *.doc problem for Firefox. It hasn't solved anything > for Thunderbird. > > I did discover that if you double-click on the "Extensions" title in > the "Download Actions" section then you get a dialogue that lets you > specify how to handle files with this extension. That, however, turns > out to be useless, because it only applies to the currently selected > extension. If the listbox is empty, as it is in our case, there's no > extension to work with. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:37:59 +1100 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: Attachment handling in Thunderbird Peter Moylan wrote: > Peter Moylan wrote: >> I've suddenly been struck by the same problem that someone mentioned >> on this list a few weeks ago. No change in version, I just copied a >> working Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 from my old computer to my new computer. >> (That suggests that the bug is something to do with the profiles, >> rather than with the code.) The "Download Actions" listbox is empty, >> and there is no way to add new actions. >> >> Did anyone ever find a fix for this? >> > In partial answer to my own question: > > I've partially solved this for Firefox. I browsed to > file://D:/accounts/tax/2008/tax0708.doc > (which happens to be a document that I created myself in OpenOffice), > and then answered the "open with" question by navigating to > soffice.exe in the appropriate directory. I also specified "also do > this in future for *.doc". (That wasn't precisely the option - the > dialogue in question has now disappeared from my screen - but I hope > you'll work out what I mean.) > > That's solved the *.doc problem for Firefox. Added later. I am now seriously screwed. The above solution was for OpenOffice 1.1.4, which does not permit printing. I have now upgraded to OpenOffice 2.something, which does permit printing. Unfortunately, there is no way to point Thunderbird to the newer version. It still insists on opening version 1.1.4, therefore there is no way to print a *.doc attachment. Something is seriously screwy. This used to happen only in the Windows world. Now that Innotek has created a Windows emulation inside OS/2, we OS/2 users have been sucked into the horrors of the Windows world. This is starting to look like a campaign to force me into purchasing M$Office. Which I won't ever do, because it won't run in the OS systems of my choice. My "Download Actions" box remained empty. Subsequently, following a suggestion I found when I searched Bugzilla for this bug, I deleted mimetypes.rdf from my profile. That made the problem worse. Now, when I browse to a file://something.doc URL, I am no longer asked which application to open it with. I am simply told that it is a binary file, and asked where I want to save it. -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:40:49 +1100 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: Attachment handling in Thunderbird Dennis Nolan wrote: > Try creating an dummy file with the required extension and see if you > can then set the dialogue. That's what I did; and it worked for Firefox but not for Thunderbird. Now, as noted in another message, it doesn't work for Firefox either. Peter > > Peter Moylan wrote: >> Peter Moylan wrote: >>> I've suddenly been struck by the same problem that someone mentioned >>> on this list a few weeks ago. No change in version, I just copied a >>> working Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 from my old computer to my new >>> computer. (That suggests that the bug is something to do with the >>> profiles, rather than with the code.) The "Download Actions" listbox >>> is empty, and there is no way to add new actions. >>> >>> Did anyone ever find a fix for this? >>> >> In partial answer to my own question: >> >> I've partially solved this for Firefox. I browsed to >> file://D:/accounts/tax/2008/tax0708.doc >> (which happens to be a document that I created myself in OpenOffice), >> and then answered the "open with" question by navigating to >> soffice.exe in the appropriate directory. I also specified "also do >> this in future for *.doc". (That wasn't precisely the option - the >> dialogue in question has now disappeared from my screen - but I hope >> you'll work out what I mean.) >> >> That's solved the *.doc problem for Firefox. It hasn't solved >> anything for Thunderbird. >> >> I did discover that if you double-click on the "Extensions" title in >> the "Download Actions" section then you get a dialogue that lets you >> specify how to handle files with this extension. That, however, turns >> out to be useless, because it only applies to the currently selected >> extension. If the listbox is empty, as it is in our case, there's no >> extension to work with. >> > > > -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------