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Cant Open Attachments

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by ameaster

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Cant open attachments people send me to see from e-mail

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by nikki96

What kind of e-mail? Outlook, Exchange, AOL...??
What is your Operating System? Windows 95, Windows 2000, Linux...?

Need more detail than this.

~nikki~

by bo_pc

If you are using notes, make sure that the person is not sending you items in OUTLOOK rich text format. You will not be able to get those attachment. It has to be in PLAIN TEXT.

by pinoy_teknik

You're not specific with your question!!!! There is a lot of issue regrading to Email attachment....

So what should it be, a litle guest...

The thing we should know is what is that file you recieved. Did you know what kind of file....and appropriate program that will used to open, view, or edit....

If you recieved .zip file you shoud have a Winzip, .pdf file is you need Acrobat Reader, .doc you need WordPad or MS Word.

Pinoy_Teknik

by bafh

Not much detail given as stated above.

Since the file has been sent using email, I would detach/download from the client to your C drive. The reason for this is differnet email client handle file assocations differently, so let the OS do it. Doesthe attachment have a file extension present ? such as .doc .xls .pdf etc ?

By detaching to your C drive you can then try opening the file by double clicking on it, however if it doesn't have a file extension you may still have trouble.If you were expecting a word processed doc try opening it in your word processing app, from the File Open and viewing all file types, this may produce erratic output.

You could always ask the sender what format it is in. It might be that the machine your trying to open it doesn't have an application installed that will allow you to edit this file.

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