"Gordon" <gbplinux@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:g2iq31$rb1$1@xxxxxx
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> "Doug" <doug@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eyxXMlgyIHA.1436@xxxxxx Quote:
>>I should know better, but I make the same mistake again and again when I
>>am absorbed in my work. I right-click on the document I want to Send
>>to/Mail Mail Recipient, and find that what I had selected was NOT the
>>document, just a LINK to the document.
>>
>> Is there any way of activating a user option to chose, at that moment,
>> between the link and the underlying document? Vista has plenty of
>> exasperating UAC serial popup messages (eg five clicks just to do a Disk
>> Cleanup), but a warning/option in this case would be welcome. Perhaps
>> this feature is available and I just need to enable it?
>>
>> Doug
>
>
> No there isn't - How would Vista know that you wanted to send a document
> instead of a link? Umm - because sending a local link to a remote recipient is very likely to
be pointless, and thus almost certainly a user error, or at least something
the user would like to be able to review. And there is the Vista precedent
that when one tries to delete a link to an executable, a warning comes up
that this will not uninstall the executable, just delete the link to it.