"Gordon" <gbplinux@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Doug" <doug@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23WJaCthyIHA.1768@xxxxxx Quote:
>>
>> "Gordon" <gbplinux@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:g2iq31$rb1$1@xxxxxx Quote:
>>> "Doug" <doug@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:eyxXMlgyIHA.1436@xxxxxx
>>>>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 again, how would an Operating System, which is inherently lifeless and
> unintelligent, know this? The data you are asking it to send is, according
> to the OS, just a lot of zeros and ones..... Because it is a LNK file. Yes, the OS being inherently lifeless and
unintelligent, but even so, Vista is programmed to intervene "intelligently"
with all sorts of error messages, and trying to attach a LNK file whose
properties show that it is pointing to a local document file (rather than a
remote web site) is a daft thing for me to be doing, so if the OS (or the
email client) could just ask "Link or Document?", then I would click
"Document".