Thunderbird attach files (was Re: General desktop questions)

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 11:38 -0400, Alex wrote:
> I think I can also now attribute instant lock-up of Thunderbird to
> this approach. I browsed to the .gvfs directory, and poof, Thunderbird
> locked, taking my email composition down with it. It's almost like
> it's waiting for an event to occur that will never happen, like access
> to the device.

I've not been following this thread so maybe the point has already been
raised, but note that .gvfs is not a "real" directory, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS. Apps which don't expect this might
give surprising results.

poc