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Keep access to pdf's opened from Thunderbird/Firefox

Asked by Peter Passchier

My problem is this: I open pdf's from Thunderbird and/or Firefox that I'd like to read. But once Thunderbird/Firefox closes, they delete the pdf's from /tmp where they were stored. So next time when I open qpdfview, they are of course no longer there. I tried to get around this by 'Save a copy' to a more permanent (temporary) location. But that (of course) doesn't make a difference, the documents that qpdfview remembers are still not found at their original location. Of course I can save pdf's to a known place, and then have qpdfview open them from there, but it's less "intuitive" and easy. I guess in that case it is easiest to 'manually' open qpdfview with /known-place/*.pdf

My question is: is there an easier way to do what I'd like to do, keep my pdf's opened from Thunderbird/Firefox accessible, that you know of??

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Best Adam Reichold (adamreichold) said : 		#1

Hello pepa,

I am not sure that I can make a substantial suggestion here, but the only thing that I can think of is to use the "Save as" instead of the "Save copy" function which (at least in newer versions) should not only save the file somewhere, but also open the created file afterwards. (The difference between both functions in the current version is this and that "Save copy" will not save any modifications made to the document, e.g. added annotations, and that "Save as" will suggest the current file path as the target path. (Also note that older version would trash a file if it is overwritten by itself.))

Best regards, Adam.

P.S.: Another idea would be to configure Firefox not to delete files that are opened by another process. (I am thinking "lsof" here.) But I don't know how to achieve this.

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Peter Passchier (peter-passchier) said : 		#2

Thank you for the tip about 'Save as', I will try that.
I looked into a setting for Firefox to not delete the temporarily saved documents, but I don't think it's there. I probably should ask them to implement this rather than bugging you. ;-)