http://www.ritlabs.com New posts in Setting up a different Temp directory for opened attachments? of forum at www.ritlabs.com [www.ritlabs.com] en http://backend.userland.com/rss2 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 03:06:26 +0200 Setting up a different Temp directory for opened attachments? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
That is a big programming project for something that is no a BAT issue. SOme programs used to open attachments in "read only" mode which would force you to do a "save as" if you wanted to save any edits
28 January 2015 03:06:26, Rick G.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic12117/message41537/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic12117/message41537/ Wed, 28 Jan 2015 03:06:26 +0200 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Setting up a different Temp directory for opened attachments? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
A good safety feature would be a prompt, "Do you really want save-as to  a temporary directory?" But I guess the difficulty there is that the save-as is being done from within Word.

The problem would be fixed if (1) TheBat could place the file in a permanent directory or the users preset choice instead of a temporary one. In my case the folder being used is one that belongs to TheBat!: C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Temp\Bat.  So it seems that TheBat could simply use another, user-specified directory for this, and not flush it.

Or (2) ... there could be a choice for TheBat not to flush the temp directory at all, leaving that for the user to do manually.

Or (3) ... TheBat could use a Backup subdirectory in the temporary folder, and on each restart  flush that folder and then refill it with a Move of any files in the main temporary folder. That way a user might have some chance to recover work that otherwise would be lost.

In virtually all cases when I have this problem, I have done a save-as but didn't realize that was being made to a temporary directory.  In all of my other workflow, I have the programs setup to do Save-As ops to my workspace folder; TheBat is the oddball that doesn't do that, and problems result.
28 January 2015 02:09:12, Larry Edwards.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic12117/message41536/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic12117/message41536/ Wed, 28 Jan 2015 02:09:12 +0200 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Setting up a different Temp directory for opened attachments? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
No way that I know of nor with any other program that is launched from an email program. Either detach it first or do a "save as"
28 January 2015 01:52:49, Rick G.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic12117/message41535/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic12117/message41535/ Wed, 28 Jan 2015 01:52:49 +0200 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Setting up a different Temp directory for opened attachments? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Frequently I open an editable attachment (e.g. a word doc), begin editing it under slightly different name, but forget to change the directory from the Temp directory to my working directory. This has resulted in lost work a number of times.

Is there a way setup TheBat to use a different directory for opened documents, one that doesn't get flushed when a new TheBat session is started?
28 January 2015 00:25:57, Larry Edwards.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic12117/message41534/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic12117/message41534/ Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:25:57 +0200 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client