2009/4/6 Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin(a)wildblue.net>:
Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
>
> 2009/4/6 Sharpe, Sam J <sam.sharpe+lists.redhat(a)gmail.com>:
>
>>
>> 2009/4/6 Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin(a)wildblue.net>:
>>
>>>
>>> I accidentally typed "VNC" when I meant "VLC" when
Thunderbird asked me
>>> how
>>> to open a .wmv file and to make matters worse I clicked on the box to
>>> always
>>> do that!
>>>
>>> Now I can't find how to undo that selection.
<snip>
> Thunderbird is:
>
> Edit -> Preferences -> Attachments -> View and Edit Actions -> (search
> for wmv extension)
>
>
Sorry about the error in the subject. I've been looking in both
applications to try and find how to fix this.
Perhaps it can't be fixed from within Thunderbird?
/I have done "/Edit -> Preferences -> Attachments -> View and Edit Actions
-> (search
for wmv extension)" a number of times but apparently I don't understand
something, nothing I enter in the "Search" block does anything?
I can type "wmv" in the block and press enter - nothing happens?
What am I doing wrong?
Don't know - I confess that when I use my instructions, I find no
applications/extensions listed in that box - but I assumed that it was
because I'm not a huge Thunderbird user. Possibly Thunderbird now gets
it's application preferences from elsewhere.
Have you tried (if you are a Gnome user) right-clicking on a WMV file
and checking what Gnome will open it with - or do the KDE equivalent.
It's possible that Thunderbird is using the native dialogs to work out
what to do with files. I just checked an OpenOffice file (I'm not big
on people emailing me videos) and what pops up looks very much like a
Gnome dialog to me...
--
Sam