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Why is TB opening attachment in TB and not the program associated with the extension?

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rearlclay1
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All of a sudden my TB installation (release 91.3.2 running on Win 10) is displaying a .pdf attachment in TB itself! rather than displaying it with the associated program (Adobe Acrobat DC). Anybody have any idea why it is doing this?? Thanks.

All of a sudden my TB installation (release 91.3.2 running on Win 10) is displaying a .pdf attachment in TB itself! rather than displaying it with the associated program (Adobe Acrobat DC). Anybody have any idea why it is doing this?? Thanks.

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Hello,

Thunderbird is doing this because not everyone has a pdf viewer. You can change this in edit > preferennces > Files and Attachments.

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Amelia
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Hello,

Thunderbird is doing this because not everyone has a pdf viewer. You can change this in edit > preferennces > Files and Attachments.

rearlclay1
rearlclay1 Question owner
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Thank you for this. I thought there might be something in Preferences but couldn't find it. I have changed this setting and now TB opens the .pdf in Acrobat. I have this setting in Windows but didn't realize that there was a similar setting in TB that needed to be set.

J M
J M
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THERE IS NO EDIT/PREFERENCES REARLCLAY1: HOW DID YOU FIX IT??

J M
J M
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FIXED IT MYSELF TOOLS/PREFERENCES

Amelia
Amelia
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I am sorry for not clarifying, some OS's have other bars. In my OS, edit/preferences is the method, and tools/preferences is not.