Re: [Evolution] attachments issue

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf mardorf rocketmail com>]

On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:29 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > Note, if I go to the
> > folder /root/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/<folder name>/cur
> > and open the mail file,
>
> You're running evolution as root!!

Not for sure. The OP could use this path for a user too.

I agree that some "solutions" are not good ways to maintain an install,
but it's not important for some users.

Regards,
Ralf

PS:

On my Linux machine I did something odd too, but perhaps I would think
that you do something odd regarding to audio on your machine ;), assumed
you're not using Linux for pro-audio, as I do. So the OP simply might
have different needs.

I didn't plan to use Evolution by several *nix installs, so on the quick
I used a workaround and since it's working without issues, I don't waste
time for a "better" solution, "just" providing the same.

[rocketmouse archlinux ~]$ ls -l /mnt/q/home/spinymouse/.local/share/evolution/mail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 59 Feb 27 21:16 /mnt/q/home/spinymouse/.local/share/evolution/mail -> 
/mnt/archlinux/home/rocketmouse/.local/share/evolution/mail

[rocketmouse archlinux ~]$ ls -l /home
total 8
drwxrwx--- 12 rocketmouse          29 4096 Nov 12  2012 music
drwx------ 31 rocketmouse rocketmouse 4096 May 16 09:40 rocketmouse
lrwxrwxrwx  1 rocketmouse rocketmouse   11 Mar  8 18:44 spinymouse -> rocketmouse
[rocketmouse archlinux ~]$ ls -l /mnt/q/home
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  2 root        root        4096 Nov 20 12:15 music
drwxrwxr-x 29 chuser      rocketmouse 4096 Nov 22 14:33 q
lrwxrwxrwx  1 rocketmouse rocketmouse   10 Mar  9 04:08 rocketmouse -> spinymouse
drwxr-xr-x 37 rocketmouse rocketmouse 4096 May 14 19:35 spinymouse

That's a strange example, I'm sharing a vbox vdi too. However, sometimes
it's not important for a user, to fix a provisional arrangement.

The OP perhaps has got a reason to use the /root path, but might run
Evolution as a user.