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alejr: “enter each person’s “Profile Name“, one at a time, into the To: box”

Except that, at least in my case, the drop box did not display the name I entered, but only others very vaguely similar. As I have already explained in detail at the beginning of this thread, where I started it.

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alejr: Please, look up my previous comment, were it says: “Thanks alejr, but the name I used was the one in this persons’ Profile.”

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My problem is that I don’t want to open every file in the folder where I have copied, let’s say 3056 email files, to find the one I am looking for. What I want, and is what I asking here about, is to have is a table I can look at and, if necessary, scroll down to find a particular email with the metadata, so I can recognize it because of the sender, the date and the topic, just as I do when the files are in a folder of the client. And maybe have also available a tool for searching for a particular sender, date or topic. That would be the cherry on the sundae.

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Thanks alejr, but the name I used was the one in this persons’ Profile.

None of the names in the drop list I got instead was that one, the one of recipient to whom I wanted to send the message. Besides, I have never found this kind of thing happening before. It has always been quite straightforward: one enters the name the other person uses as handle, the one showing in that person’s replies or in the Profile, if this is different from the one in the replies, and it’s done.  No such drop list ever appeared instead.

This looks like a bug.

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Susan: I have searched for those tools, as you have suggested, but what I have found is about how to open and look at individual email files without having the  corresponding client installed in the computer. But not about how to get, when opening a folder that is not part of the client, TB in this case,  with a lot of copied email files in it, one of those tables with the metadata as I have described it, so as to be able to choose, at a glance, which email to look at of those many copied to this folder: The kind of table, maybe in a different format, I see when I open “Inbox” in TB or “AOL Mail” with Mail (AOL being now the email  provider), only with copies of the email files in a folder that is not one of the client’s.

For an example of what I have found looking for “email viewer tools”:

https://www.nucleustechnologies.com/blog/best-free-email-viewer-tools/

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wavy: What??

What?? Have you missed completely my second comment with a link to an article that explains that which seems to perplex you, as well as my repeated reminders on this very subject in my later comments here, but you are commenting — with a big show of perplexity, at that — anyways?

As to moving further inland and north: That might be a reasonable idea, except for all the many, here-and-there, across whole countries terrorist attacks (a.k.a “asymmetrical warfare”). And, oh, sorry: I forgot to mention the deluge of cyberattacks against critical infrastructure, whether they serve coastal or inland, south or north, east or west locations. Plus also against home users and business in true “equal opportunity” spirit.

If North Koreans could do it if they wanted, then the Central African Republic, a likely candidate for implementing the famine approach to trimming out the excess world population brought up by Charlie, can do it too. After all, the capital investment to do that, even for a poor country, such as this one, is small compared to many other routinely necessary expenses and most of the running expenses are in generating the electricity to operate the equipment in country and paying the hackers plus some maintenance. Something that countries such as the CAR can fund if those in government there put their minds to it. As to the necessary expertise to get things going? Plenty of cyberguns for hire out there that know how to do this and even may have some pretty useful software at their disposal. Of course there would be retaliation in kind, but first the retaliators will have to identify the attackers and where they are, something not that easy to do when they do not want to be found, operate also from outside of, for example, the CAR, even from different continents and move around, not staying long at the one place.

And when there are several famine threatened countries doing this, both independently and together, to the non-starving, richer nations that have told them, in practice in the scenario now under discussion, to just lay down and starve until at least enough of them die.

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To many of us, Kurt Vonnegut was one of our bright guiding lights during the decades from the post war onwards. Beginning in the late Seventies, when I discovered his work, I read everything by him that was published, and went to some big bookstore looking for it, or ordered it at a small local one, when a new novel came out or I discovered the title of an older one I had not read. His novels never disappointed and always helped me understand important things about the world where I lived. And, all these years later, they still do.

He wrote some science-fiction novels, with aliens in them from the planet Tralfamadore, that circles a distant star in anther galaxy that is a neighbor of our on.

And, of course “The Sirens of Titan.” The novel is a very fine one, but was initially panned by the critics, although eventually that changed and, regardless, it went to win the Hugo, the highest award given on the base of attendants’ votes at the large annual World Science Fiction Convention, or WorldCon, awarded to the “finest fantasy or science-fiction novel of the year.”

So henceforth he would declare, half (?) kidding, in his typical dead-pan manner, in some of his following books, that usually did deal with his personal points of view as did with their particular stories, that he, Kurt Vonnegut, had written the best science fiction novel ever: “The Sirens of Titan.” He was a Mid-Westerner from Indiana, but self-effacing and contemporizing he was not.

When he died, in 2007, some of the best of my world left with him. But the objective world continued spinning on its axis, day following night following day, the seasons of the year and other things, even mountains and seas, kept changing with the passing of time, some people came in and some went out of my life and, in the end, some also out of theirs.

And so it goes.

 

Where to watch the trailer and the full movie:

https://www.vonnegutmovie.com/

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Charlie, if you mean that you clicked on PKs attached jpg, I just clicked and there it was, in its full splendor, PK’s picture of the most treasured floppies.

I would guess that many of us still have floppies somewhere. I certainly do, but purely for sentimental reasons. Even some intact, never open boxes with still the factory fresh, so to speak, floppies inside.

I suppose I could put them up in eBay, or Japan’s equivalent of eBay, to sell them there. But I then think that there may be some customs’ paperwork involved and charges for conversion of currencies both ways, so I sigh and just let it go.

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Wavy: “Most of our problems are exacerbated by our over abundance of humans and the stress they put on our environment. ”

No question about that. The issue is how to get this number to go down and how fast. Bill Gate’s, allegedly, has or more correctly had, a fast one Windows 10-based solution. Except that this is no longer up to him, as: (1) he is no longer the Boss of All Bosses at MS; (b) Windows 10, and along with it the MS-obedient world, is moving to Win 11. So that sort of thing now is really all up to Satia, who surely has his own ideas about this.

I am in favor of a more integrated way of dealing with the actual most pressing problem, shorter term, in the list of truly awful ones, which is not overpopulation, but nasty climate change, of which the population size and positive growth ratio is one part, not the whole. Unless the plan is to let the first one take care of the second one, not my first choice exactly. (I dislike the idea of having in the neighborhood,  by courtesy of the starving nations, all those bombs going off and the sniping and, at my supermarket, those poisoned bananas — my favorite fruit, when not poisoned).

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The extension go the file name, yes. But that is not the metadata.

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Just saw “Drifting Home”, by accident: I went to watch in Netflix a short episode of an old favorite of mine that always cheers me up: “Carmen Sandiego”: beautiful to look at, with really clever plots and wicked fast and witty dialog. If “just a kid’s show”, then it was meant to be watched by some really, really intelligent and mature kids.

But I was surprised to find “Drifting Home” being “offered” as soon as I logged in and before I got to “My List.” So I started watching it, just for a few minutes, to get some idea of what this movie is like. And first I was intrigued and then, just like that, I was hooked! And couldn’t help it but to watch the whole two hours.

It is a surreal fantasy, it plays out with the logic of dreams. In parts it seems real, but not for long. I’ve found it strangely fascinating: sometimes charming, some times dramatic, some times dark and sometimes scary.

So these are my two cents: this is a good movie, a fine movie, worth watching.

The director’s name, Hiroyasu Ishida, is one to keep in mind. If this is only his second movie, I wonder what his twelfth one will be like.

So now you know.

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RVAUser: Here is what a survey of several browsers, including Brave, by PC Magazine came up with:

https://www.pcmag.com/picks/stop-trackers-dead-the-best-private-browsers

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JonW: “But if you copy the emails to a local folder in TB your metadata is preserved.”

John, I know you are trying to help and I appreciate that.

Your advice is to put the emails in a local folder in TB.

But I would like to get rid of TB. Or at least to ignore it, have nothing more to do with it, if it remains in the Mac, not to keep going back to it to see the old emails. So, if I went to the trouble of moving to another client, I would have to move, or copy all the mails to it from TB, without blowing up the Mac, sending out an EMP that fries the electronics of GPS satellites, or much worse: wiping out all my emails instead of transferring them. Because accidents happen and this is TB we are considering here.

Besides that, I would be inclined to consider it a dubious undertaking to switch to another client that some people like and like to recommend. I switched to TB because so many people were saying how good it was and how happy they were with it.

And now here I am.

I don’t mind to make such changes with most other things and risk coming out a cropper, but my emails, old and new, are too important to me for that. So I guess am stuck with TB. None of the problems it has created, at least so far, have been and are fatal, just very annoying.

So better the devil I know … Sigh!

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It has been a while. Time for some more Sibelius?

I think this is a good one:

Sibelius – Symphony No 3 in C major, Op 52 – Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iPYeALbp50

Alternatively:

Sibelius: 3. Sinfonie ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Jaime Martín Conductot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg5-lNMgq6c

Is it interesting that Frankfurt, a town of bankers, has one of Europe’s leading orchestras?

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News break: Neither Outlook nor Thunderbird are greatest ever email clients, in my opinion.

Why TB? I given my reasons in several occasions, here and in other threads, no need to repeat that. I use it because is one way to use POP. Or rather I tried it, and now I’m stuck with it, because the last thing I want to do is to fool around with things that have to do with my email. Yes, I can copy all my sent and received ones to another directory and away from TB, but then I’ll get a bunch of files without the metadata that tell me who sent it, when, what it was about.

Outlook? It’s too much for me, and it’s MS.

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