0000150: File -> export/import irritations

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0000150

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15 Feb 09 03:02

30 Mar 10 15:44

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JNicoll

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0000150: File -> export/import irritations

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2.29i 3.3.8 WinXPPro

I frequently export things (usually mails with badly formed headers or unnamed attachments) so that I can tidy those aspects up (using a program that renames attachments with incrementing names), then I re-import them. Two things regularly annoy me doing this:

a) that one can select File->Export from within a group viewer or
   All-Groups, but you can't File->Import from within a group viewer
   - you have to find the All-Groups File menu.

   It might just be useful to be able to do a File->Export
   (and Import) when viewing a single message too.

b) Gemini doesn't seem to remember the last-used target
   folder for an export/import operation. I only ever use
   one place, but it might be useful if it could remember
   the last few such folders.

   It would also be useful if Gemini had an option to ask
   the host os to open a specific folder, perhaps with a
   definable program - windowsexplorer suits me though.

   Otherwise the process is export stuff, move gemini's
   windows aside, navigate to the export target (even if
   you have a shortcut you still have to follow it),
   fiddle with the file, find gemini's all-groups window
   and define the import, check it worked ok, go back to
   the export target folder and delete the work file(s),
   and then get on with doing things with the fixed mail.
   It gets tedious after a while!

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(0000213) JNicoll (reporter) 29 Mar 10 18:17	When I said: b) Gemini doesn't seem to remember the last-used target folder for an export/import operation. I only ever use one place, but it might be useful if it could remember the last few such folders. I have a feeling that somewhere you said this wasn't possible. But I was reading a Windows API textbook a week or two ago and - at least at the API level - it IS possible to specify a path at which a OpenFile or SaveAs dialog opens...

(0000242) mark (administrator) 30 Mar 10 15:44	It looks like it does remember the last folder used in all but one case, which I presume is what you're encountering. This particular bug is fixed in v2.63.7.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
15 Feb 09 03:02	JNicoll	New Issue
23 Mar 09 11:48	mark	Status	new => acknowledged
29 Mar 10 18:17	JNicoll	Note Added: 0000213
30 Mar 10 15:44	mark	Note Added: 0000242
30 Mar 10 15:44	mark	Status	acknowledged => confirmed

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