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06-09-2008
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| | Re: Vista Send to... (mail recipient) On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:36:50 +0100, "Doug" <doug@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > >"Gordon" <gbplinux@xxxxxx> wrote in message >news:g2j33t$4ai$1@xxxxxx Quote: >> "Doug" <doug@xxxxxx> wrote in message >> news:%23WJaCthyIHA.1768@xxxxxx Quote: >>> >>> "Gordon" <gbplinux@xxxxxx> wrote in message >>> news:g2iq31$rb1$1@xxxxxx >>>> "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". the effects of PEBKAC. |
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06-09-2008
| #12 (permalink) |
| | Re: Vista Send to... (mail recipient) "Nonny" <nonnymoose@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:njkq44leut2691540movsvorbd02q1pgnf@xxxxxx Quote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:36:50 +0100, "Doug" > <doug@xxxxxx> wrote: > Quote: >> >>"Gordon" <gbplinux@xxxxxx> wrote in message >>news:g2j33t$4ai$1@xxxxxx Quote: >>> "Doug" <doug@xxxxxx> wrote in message >>> news:%23WJaCthyIHA.1768@xxxxxx >>>> >>>> "Gordon" <gbplinux@xxxxxx> wrote in message >>>> news:g2iq31$rb1$1@xxxxxx >>>>> "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". > One thing you should keep in mind is that Vista cannot compensate for > the effects of PEBKAC. |
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