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@@ -3,7 +3,12 @@ Using the attachment plugin, when filecheck was checking the mime-type of the at
 It turns out that the filecheck plugin couldn't find the file, because it was merely using the $pagesources hash, rather than finding the absolute path of the file in question.
 
 > I don't understand why the file was not in `%pagesources`. Do you?
-> --[[Joey]] 
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+>> The file *was* in `%pagesources`, but what returns from that is the filename relative to the `srcdir` directory; for example, `foo/bar.gif`.
+>> When File::MimeInfo::Magic::magic is given that, it can't find the file.
+>> But if it is given `/path/to/srcdir/foo/bar.gif` instead, then it *can* find the file, and returns the mime-type correctly.
+>> --[[KathrynAndersen]]
 
 The following patch fixes the problem: