Thread: Claws and e-mail dates
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Alassiel is offline Alassiel
2008-01-15 , 16:28
Posts: 17 | Thanked: 2 times | Joined on Jan 2008
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Paul,

I appreciate all of your feedback. Here's what I can add.

Originally Posted by claws View Post
Well, I can't tell where you downloaded them to, but something like this, (in xterm):

cp /full/path/to/claws-mail_fix-date.tar.gz /home/user/

Of course, you can move (mv) instead of copy (cp).
Thanks, Paul. I'm very familiar with both cp and mv. My problem right now is that I don't have anything to copy....I can't find the tar file. I see it in File Manager under a claws-mail folder that I created. But I continue to search in linux and I haven't found it yet. <sigh> See more below.


Originally Posted by claws View Post
Hmm, hard to say, since I boot my n800 off one of the SD cards, and I can't remember what the default behaviour was. Probably the file manager is either opening /home/user/ or /media/mmc1/
I have been poking around relying on ls and piping the output to grep. Found claws-related files (I'm betting executables based on location) under /usr/bin but that's it. The tar file is not under /home (and sub dirs) nor /media/mmc1 nor /media/mmc2. But wait...BINGO! I was just about to submit my reply hoping for some more ideas when it occurred to me to try the find command (even though it doesn't appear to be listed as an available command). It worked. The File Manager files live on the following path /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/. I've got the tar file and now will follow your other steps.

Originally Posted by claws View Post
(IMO, it is not very clever that the default file manager attempts to hide the directory structure, but that's another matter.)
Wholeheartedly agree! This shouldn't have been so painful. Why would someone want to put the structure under a dot (.) directory effectively hiding it? I certainly wasn't expecting that.

Regards,
Alassiel
Last edited by Alassiel; 2008-01-15 at 16:39.