Re: AbiWord ambush on my mac

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 19:07 -0800, Judith Rascoe wrote:
> Mail attachments arrive as AbiWord documents on my Mac - why?
>
> Every so often - maybe 2 times out of twenty - an email attachment sent
> to me as a Microsoft Word document arrives saying it's an AbiWord
> document. These have always been multi-page MS Word documents, with no
> graphics but with formatting a little more elaborate than simple text.
> I have had this happen both with documents sent from Macs and documents
> sent from PCs.
>
> AbiWord has its charms, but in these cases it's less than charming: it
> becomes very balky and slow and takes several minutes to allow
> scrolling, for instance. It underlines phrases in green for reasons
> that escape me, and it displays the spinning beach ball of death at
> every opportunity.
>
> I don't want my email program to toss these attachments to AbiWord, and
> I don't know why it does this. I can't find a menu in preferences
> anywhere that allows me to control this. At the same time, I don't
> want simply to delete AbiWord in case it's opening files that I'd
> otherwise be unable to open. Also it's a nice app if it would just
> mind its own business.
>
> Explanations, help, and work-arounds would all be very welcome.
>

Hi Judith,
          Those green squiggles are grammar mistakes. You can speed up
AbiWord considerably by turning off grammar checking. Go to preferences
=> spell checking uncheck grammar checking. Then everything is much
faster.

If you don;t want abiword documents, email the people sending them to
you to stop sending them.

Cheers

Martin

> Macintosh Powerbook G4
> AbiWord 2.4.1
> OSX 10.3.9
> Mac Mail 1.3.11
>
> In the latest case, the document was sent from a PC running Word for
> Office 2000. When I did a "save as" on the opened attachment, it
> proposed saving the document in a new folder (!) labelled
> "filename.mimeattach" buried deep in my
> library>mail>POPaccount>INBOX.mbox, where it would sit in the INBOX
> package.
>
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Received on Thu Feb 1 04:22:05 2007