Thunderbird 68 won't open attachments (Solved)

[Subito Piano]

Hi all --

Suffice to say I've lost the better part of the past week on this...

I was using Thunderbird 31 and quite happy until last fall, when one day I was no longer able to connect to my work google calendars, which I manage (read-write) via lightning+provider extensions. How that happened is another story...

After many futile efforts I gave up. However, about a week ago I discovered that the new T-bird 68 easily connected to the google calendars via lightning and the provider extension. Super!

...except that now Thunderbird does not let me open most attachments -- document files, spreadsheets, etc. For instance, trying to open a powerpoint, it wants to open it by default with pupzip. Choosing to open with "other" brings up a limited set of choices:



...note that there is no way to search for the correct program.

In T-bird 31, I could navigate to the desired program -- for example, I could find an file type's correct program in /opt/libreoffice6.1/program or /usr/bin, etc. However, this newer version of T-bird doesn't use mimeTypes. I've searched for a way to do this manually but cannot find up-to-date information for this new version of T-bird. Is anyone familiar with this new version?

Any help appreciated!

[Flash]

How did you install Thunderbird 68? (And did you uninstall the older version?)

[Semme]

SP mate, one of these should get you sorted...

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=95371

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=5069

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=26980

[Subito Piano]

Semme - thanks, but T-bird has changed since those posts.... goodbye, mimeTypes file in the profile folder.

Flash -- straight download of the tarball from the T-bird site, unzipped it into /opt. FYI, I tried as late a version as 52 and it would not fetch my google calendar. I tried the deb for v. 68 but it wouldn't install.

[Semme]

Here's a thought >> userchromejs-2

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/hy ... ot-working

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/thunderbird

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/produ ... d/calendar

[Subito Piano]

Umm....yeah....looks like I'd have to learn a whole lot about coding....

[Semme]

Did you catch the "Check for an incorrect preference" bit?

[Subito Piano]

NAILED IT!

I changed the file association for an XLSX attachment from the default "pupzip" to the equally absurd "pale moon," then opened my profile folder, sorted by date, and found I had just modified (or created) the file handlers.json. I opened it in a text editor and saw:

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{"defaultHandlersVersion":{},"mimeTypes":{"application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet":{"action":2,"ask":true,"handlers":[{"name":"Pale Moon","path":"/opt/palemoon/palemoon"}],"extensions":["xls"]}},"schemes":{}}

so I changed it to

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{"defaultHandlersVersion":{},"mimeTypes":{"application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet":{"action":2,"ask":true,"handlers":[{"name":"[b]LibreOfficeCalc[/b]","path":"[b]/opt/libreoffice6.0/program/scalc[/b]"}],"extensions":["xls"]}},"schemes":{}}

restarted T-bird -- and it WORKED!

After I get some sleep and go to work tomorrow, I'll edit the rest of the associations.

Blessings -- thanks for your ideas, as always.

[Semme]

Good for you!

FYI - The latest TB has this as well. "Handler" or "mime" will get you started.