On Tuesday 20 January 2004 09:21 am, robin wrote: > Marc wrote: > > Yesterday I went to do a clean install of 9.2 I had a number of files in > > my home directory and before formatting the hard drive burnt everything > > in home to CD. I had a number of files that must have been email > > attachments. They were in my home/documents directory and had jpg images > > in them. > > > > After doing the fresh install of 9.2 and putting the files back in > > home/documents they now appear as a icon with a yellow envelope with a > > sheet of paper behind it. They have no suffix in the file name to > > identify them as jpg pdf or anything. My question is how can I open > > these files and recover the data on them? > > It looks like I have the problem solved. I created a new folder in Kmail called old mail, then drug and dropped all the files there. K mail opens 95% of them and and displays the attachments with photos as jpg files. I suspect I will find a similar solution for the remaining few.
Thanks to all who replied Marc
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