Re: [Evolution] Error loading attachments - version 3.32.3 (flatpak git)

[Zan Lynx <zlynx acm org>]

On 7/5/2019 5:03 PM, Jairo Lopez via evolution-list wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I decided to switch my main computer from Windows to Linux. After 
> comparing between Thunderbird and Evolution, I went with Evolution 
> (really liked) and struggled a bit migrating my PST file. Now after 
> finally configuring my work and personal accounts, when I thought 
> everything was working correctly I tried to add an attachment to a draft 
> and got a weird behavior:
>
>   * If I click on the "Add Attachment..." button at the bottom nothing
>     happens.
>   * If I drag the file that I want to attach to the draft window I get
>     the error message: "Could not load the attachment. Error when
>     getting information for file /home/jairolop/test.txt: no such file
>     or directory". The file exists because I'm dragging it. In fact
>     thinking that the problem was a long path or filename I created a
>     simple one at HOME with the same result
>
> Where can I find out the reason adding an attachment is failing? I'd 
> hate to use Thunderbird instead of Evolution

I'm not completely familiar with either one, but if this is a Snap or 
Flatpak package they run in a sandbox which restricts their access to 
your files. It sounds to me as if your sandbox isn't allowing access to 
your files.

See 
https://askubuntu.com/questions/845644/allow-snap-apps-to-access-data-from-outside-of-container

There might also be something useful in here, although it seems more 
aimed at developers: 
http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions-reference.html


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