Pdf in attachments do not open with Acrobat Pdf Reader anymore
All of the sudden,Pdf in attachments do not open with Acrobat Pdf Reader anymore, but they show up like the figure below. How can I fix it?
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Preferences/General/Files & Attachments, click the Action for pdf content and select the opening app such as Reader.
I'm seeing this too. Latest TB update seems to have overwritten settings in Preferences/General/Files & Attachments. Changing pdfs back to "always ask" mostly fixes it.
However I still get weird problems. For example if I try to open a pdf attachment to an email I'm composing (i.e. I have just attached a pdf, and double-click the attachement to check I have the right one), TB thinks it is a html attachment and tries to open it in Firefox (see attached screenshot).
I'm also having similar problems in Firefox recently, where it sometimes ignores the app settings in about:preferences. For example, I have set pdfs to "always ask", works OK for http://......pdf links, but file:///....pdf links just get opened in the firefox pdf viewer, completely ignoring the "always ask" setting. I mention this simply because both TB and Firefox broke in similar ways recently, and I assume they have common code for this.
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sfhowes said
Preferences/General/Files & Attachments, click the Action for pdf content and select the opening app such as Reader.
I have the same problem and have tried this many times but Thunderbird keeps crashing when I go to preferences. I have reported the problem. Is anyone else crashing at this point?
fran9 said
sfhowes said
Preferences/General/Files & Attachments, click the Action for pdf content and select the opening app such as Reader.I have the same problem and have tried this many times but Thunderbird keeps crashing when I go to preferences. I have reported the problem. Is anyone else crashing at this point?
Do you have language packs installed in Tools/Add-ons & Themes/Languages? They are known to cause Preferences to hang in 91, so they should be removed (dictionaries are separate and not an issue).
A different solution. With the e-mail with the attachment open: Go to Message then Attachments. Then click Detach. This should get the pdf free from Thunderbird.
I am now having the same problem in when someone sends me a .pdf with a dash ( - ) in the file name Thunderbird seems to be saving it as a colon ( : ) in the temp file and windows is not able to open the file. If I right click the attachment and select save as the file name stays as sent with a dash ( - ) . If I simply drag the file to my desktop then the dash is removed. I am able to open both file from the desktop