On 08/14/2009 04:21 AM, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 19:03 -0700, Skunk Worx wrote:
I have Fedora 11 X86_64 and when I get a PDF in email via Thunderbird
I double click the PDF attachment and it pops up with :
"somefile.pdf could not be opened, because the associated helper
application does not exist. Change the association in your
preferences."
Have a look at the source for a problem message, and look for a
content-type header above the PDF attachment. If it's a PDF content
type, you've got a problem with associating the right program with the
file. If it's octet-stream, the mail author stuffed it up, and you're
left with manually saving the file and opening it with something else.
It's Content-Type: application/pdf; so if I follow what you are saying
the association to "Document Viewer" was not working for some reason.
Octet-stream is a generic content type for ANY type of binary file. It
simply means this file is some sort of binary. You can't associate a
program with that type, because it could be used for anything. You
could try associating it with a PDF viewer, then you'd get stuck, again,
when someone sent you a JPEG, or document, as octet-stream, later on.
If you use Gnome, you could try associating it with gnome-open, and hope
that it can handle the file type, itself, as a middle man.
This is a common problem, and it'd be helpful if mail programs let you
set up a list of open-with program handlers for unidentified binary
files (e.g. open with evince, open with eog, open with openoffice.org)
that would pop-up when you clicked on such attachments, letting you
choose the most likely one.
It appears to have been something funky in the association handling, as
this is not a generic octet stream.
I say "have been" and "was not" because I had problems with DVD/CD
writing crashing X and logging me out (thus making a lot of coasters) if
Desktop Effects were enabled (ati based system).
After I removed my .gconf* directories last night to get rid of the last
of the compiz effects, the same attachment/email is now working.
Solved!
Thanks,
John
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