Re: [Evolution] exporting mails to txt or pdf

[Reid Thompson <Reid Thompson ateb com>]

On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 05:38 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 19:58 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 13:37 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 08:37 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 14:04 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote:
> > > > > I have an Evolution mail folder with lots of e-mails I would like to
> > > > > export to some external format (txt, pdf, doc).
> > > > > ...
> > > > > Is this possible ?
> > > > This key had been moved to gsettings for 3.6.x, thus the command is:
> > > >    $ gsettings set org.gnome.evolution.mail drag-and-drop-save-file-format 'pdf'
> > > This would be awesome!  But I set this setting and drag a message to
> > > nautilus -- I just get a zero sized .pdf file.
> > > evolution-3.6.3-1.2.1.x86_64
> > I've duplicated this behavior - 0 size PDF file - on three boxes.
>
> And it persists on evolution-3.8.0 [openSUSE 12.3 w/GNOME 3.8],  I just
> get a dot-pdf file that is zero sized.
>
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It appears this may be a timing issue???.  On git head... 
if I drag and drop, then I get a zero sized file.  IF I drag and drop
again, w/o removing the zero sized file, then i get a popup asking if I
want to overwrite the existing file; answering yes gets me a valid pdf
of the email

reid