[SLUG] Thunderbird saving attachment to NAS

2012-03-19 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi all, I have a NAS box and it is visible in Gnome file browser. I can save files to it fine. When I open Thunderbird and have an attachment to save, I'm only able to save to local folders, rather than the NAS drive. In thunderbird it has Documents, Music, Videos, etc but no network

Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird saving attachment to NAS

2012-03-19 Thread Michael Fox
How is the NAS box share mounted? Have you considered mounting if via NFS? On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: Hi all, I have a NAS box and it is visible in Gnome file browser. I can save files to it fine. When I open Thunderbird and have an attachment

Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird saving attachment to NAS

2012-03-19 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Have you tried the FileSave AsFile option? It provides the facility to save emails and attachments from thunderbird to the file system including external disks. Where do the options of Documents, Music, Video etc show up? Marghanita Ben Donohue wrote: Hi all, I have a NAS box and it is

Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird saving attachment to NAS

2012-03-19 Thread Ben Donohue
Thanks all, When I go File/ save as/ file/ it does not list the NAS box even though File Browser has it listed. Haven't tried NFS as yet... trying .gvfs... gvfs-mount //10.10.1.200/data gets the following error... (haven't had luck with a googled answer as yet) Error mounting location:

Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird saving attachment to NAS

2012-03-19 Thread peter
Ben == Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au writes: Ben created a Data folder in my home folder and then as root typed... Ben mount -t cifs //10.1.1.200/data/ Data which works in that Ben Thunderbird sees it in the save as dialog box, but not after a Ben reboot. Ben How do I make this permanent?

Re: [SLUG] flakky USB connection to Phone storage

2012-03-19 Thread Tom Worthington
On 19/03/12 11:50, Voytek Eymont wrote: ... on three or four occasions, my phone was plugged into charger overnight, but didn't charge ... trying to decide who to blame ... Sunspots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_maximum#Predictions ;-) -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications

Re: [SLUG] flakky USB connection to Phone storage

2012-03-19 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
:-( seems it wasn't the cable after all. Marghanita da Cruz wrote: Voytek Eymont wrote: snip Marghanita, This is unlikely to be relevant, but: Since I had my phone, over a period of about 9 month, on three or four occasions, my phone was plugged into charger overnight, but didn't charge.