[pmmail-list] PMMAIL 2.20.2380 file corruption (forwards with attachments)

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Frank Winkler - Sun Germany REOS - Munich schrieb:
> 
>  >> Interesting data structure. I would do it much more 
> easy - what' so  
>  >> difficult is preceding the path with a "getenv 
> ('TMP')"? 
>  >
>  >  And how does the program keep track which file in the 
> temp 
>  >directory belongs to which message? 
>  >
>  >  How does the program avoid duplicate file names? 
> 
> The same as yours would. Just add the prefix in front of 
> the directory name! Instead of
> 
> 	INBOX.FLD\gaga.MSG\pic1.jpg
> 
> we'd get
> 
> 	F:\tmp\[INBOX.FLD\]gaga.msg\pic1.jpg
> 
> and so forth ...
> 

  This means to duplicate the folder structure or at least a subset of 
it within the temp directory.  

  So why not doing it within the folder subdirectories themselves? This 
would be easier to understand and maintain, wouldn't it, than to nearly 
identical directory structures in separate trees?  

  Just imagine that I look at some image from an attachment, keep 
PMView open all day, since I like that picture, and then decide that I 
want to move the message to another folder or even the folder into 
another folder as a sub-folder -- wouldnt that require to move folders 
around in this TEMP tree, too? Not very easy, isnt it?  

Yours, 
L.Willms