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David Lesher - 16 Dec 2003 05:10 GMT

OSX 10.2.8
Eudora 5.2

The user tells me it's changed behaviour re: attachments.

He gets mail with an attachment. It's phyiscally in
the attachment folder.

He clicks on it, be it Wordthless, PDF or whatever. It opens.
He closes app.

Next time he looks at the message, thet attachment{s} gone.
The bottom line of the mail has a message to the effect it
have been converted [1] to mumble filename.

If he searches for it, the attachment is no longer in the Attachments
folder. It's in the SPOOL folder!!

Huh?

[1] Not sure about baptised

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Kathy Morgan - 16 Dec 2003 21:39 GMT

> OSX 10.2.8
> Eudora 5.2
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> If he searches for it, the attachment is no longer in the Attachments
> folder. It's in the SPOOL folder!!

That's odd. I'd suggest he try rebuilding the Settings file and see if
that corrects the behavior. Also, I wouldn't trust the attachments to
stay in the spool folder--he maybe should copy them to another location.

To rebuild the Settings file: hold down all modifier keys
(command-option-control-shift) while selecting Settings from the Special
menu. Some of his customs settings will be retained (server names, user
names) but some will revert to default settings. To make it easier to
reenter his preferences, he can get a list before rebuilding the
Settings file by opening a new message and then selecting "Insert System
Configuration" from the Help menu.

Let us know if this fixes the peculiarity, okay?

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David Lesher - 27 Dec 2003 04:00 GMT

>> If he searches for it, the attachment is no longer in the Attachments
>> folder. It's in the SPOOL folder!!

>That's odd. I'd suggest he try rebuilding the Settings file and see if
>that corrects the behavior. Also, I wouldn't trust the attachments to
>stay in the spool folder--he maybe should copy them to another location.

I found a similar issue today with the M$ version. If you have
Content Concentrator on, you get the text line at the end of the
document. 'Blah-Blah-Blah' gets you the icon back. No sign of the
attachments being moved, however...

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