Thunderbird and saving attached images

[Mike Echo]

Thunderbird gives me an error when I try to save one or more attached
jpgs. It pops up an alert which says "Unable to save your attachment.
Please check the filename and try again later". Huh? It's only a jpg and
it doesn't already exist in the save dir. Anyone else get this?

While I'm on it, is there an easy way to drag an attachment jpg so it
can be dropped into a new email? I hate it when people send me multi-
forwarded .eml files with attachments buried deeply.

TIA.

 

[spoon2001]

I hate it when people send me multi-
forwarded .eml files with attachments buried deeply.

TIA.

Sorry, no answer to your question. But I did want to express my agreement
about those deeply-nested EML files that we get in the mail. It's NUTS when
you have to open up 8 emails (usually containing tons of email addresses) to
get to the thing they want you to see. Then it is just some dumb chain-mail
CRAP.

I have never bothered to check, what email program are these people using?
One good thing about Outlook Express ... you have two Forwarding options,
Forward or Forward as Attachment, with "Forward" (inline) being the default.

Forward as Attachment seems to be default with TBird, though that option can
be changed to Forward Inline.

It just goes to show you how dopey people can be online ... how they just
use the default options without ever thinking about anything else.

 

[John Corliss]

Thunderbird gives me an error when I try to save one or more attached
jpgs. It pops up an alert which says "Unable to save your attachment.
Please check the filename and try again later". Huh? It's only a jpg and
it doesn't already exist in the save dir. Anyone else get this?

While I'm on it, is there an easy way to drag an attachment jpg so it
can be dropped into a new email? I hate it when people send me multi-
forwarded .eml files with attachments buried deeply.

TIA.

Mike,
Although I'm sure you'll get an answer to your question from somebody
in this group, you'll be doing yourself a favor if you create an account
with secnews.netscape.com and then subscribe to the
netscape.mozilla.thunderbird group. That way, your concern is more
likely to be noticed by the developers, who reportedly monitor the group
and note probably bug complaints.

HTH.


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[Adam Piggott]

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Mike,
Although I'm sure you'll get an answer to your question from somebody
in this group, you'll be doing yourself a favor if you create an account
with secnews.netscape.com and then subscribe to the
netscape.mozilla.thunderbird group. That way, your concern is more
likely to be noticed by the developers, who reportedly monitor the group
and note probably bug complaints.

FYI the group name is netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news. Just went looking
after I read your post as I much prefer Usenet to forums such as Mozillazine.

Thanks!
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[Mike Echo]

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Mike,
Although I'm sure you'll get an answer to your question from somebody
in this group, you'll be doing yourself a favor if you create an account
with secnews.netscape.com and then subscribe to the
netscape.mozilla.thunderbird group. That way, your concern is more
likely to be noticed by the developers, who reportedly monitor the group
and note probably bug complaints.

FYI the group name is netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news. Just went looking
after I read your post as I much prefer Usenet to forums such as Mozillazine.

Thanks both Adam and John. I had checked out the Thunderbird forum at
mozilla.org but couldn't find a solution, only someone else with the
same problem. I'll try the newsgroup (like Adam, I prefer newsgroups to
forums).

Thanks again, much appreciated.
R.

 

[Mike Echo]

Thanks both Adam and John. I had checked out the Thunderbird forum at
mozilla.org but couldn't find a solution, only someone else with the
same problem. I'll try the newsgroup (like Adam, I prefer newsgroups to
forums).

I just found an extension called 'attachment-extractor' which seems to
do what I am after. Fingers crossed it doesn't choke on attachments
buried within multi-level .eml attachments.

R.

 

[geothermal]

Thunderbird gives me an error when I try to save one or more attached
jpgs. It pops up an alert which says "Unable to save your attachment.
Please check the filename and try again later". Huh? It's only a jpg and
it doesn't already exist in the save dir. Anyone else get this?

TIA.

Hi,

These types of questions are mostly answered at the usenet group
24hoursupport.helpdesk

But my first instinct is to do a reinstall of Thunderbird
whenever google gives me nothing for an error message.

ciao,

geothermal

 

[wald]

These types of questions are mostly answered at the usenet group
24hoursupport.helpdesk

But my first instinct is to do a reinstall of Thunderbird
whenever google gives me nothing for an error message.

I'd first create a new profile, just for testing, and check if the
error occurs there, too. If it doesn't, then the Thunderbird
installation is OK but your profile went bogus.

Regards,
Wald