Evolution attachment file associations - how?

[Ken Scott]

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 14:13, Ken Scott wrote:
> I just upgraded to OpenOffice 1.1.0 on RH9 box (really wanted macros!).
> The RH update only went up to Openoffice 1.0.2 so I had to use the
> provided installer(non-RPM based).  It forced me to install into a
> different directory because it said the language installed was different
> from the new one (I use English exclusively so I don't know why it did
> this).
> Everything is fine except the Openoffice buttons on the desktop taskbar
> continued to start the old version (I fixed this by changing the link to
> call new version using 'soffice -calc'  instead of the old command
> 'oocalc').  Most troubling is the fact that spreadsheet attachments in
> Evolution (I have 1.4.5) still start  the old veriosn of OpenOffice. 
> How can I straighten this out.  I saw no file association table in
> Evolution and got no help looking in the in the Evolution Knowledge base
> nor Linuxquestions.org.  Thanks in advance.
> Ken 
> 
Embarrassingly, I realized that although I changed the system file
associations under Preferences/FileTypes and programs to point to the
new Openoffice version, they were not picked up by Evolution until I
restarted it.  Now they work as intended.  Thanks for listening.
Ken