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by rick.philips9 1 view

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Outlook express 6/ win98 SE. I received a 931k e-mail attachment and saved it to a directory. (the e-mail download seemed to take appropriate time to download a 931k file) The hard drive sounded like it wrote it to disk but it was not there. I tried sending different files with various extensions (even bogus extensions) to and from 3 different e-mail accounts. I monitored the bytes/available on the drive after saving the attachment 4 times and the bytes/available did not change. Doing a system search (including attrib from a command prompt) showed nothing. HELP?

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by carquiza

Hi,

My suspect here is you received a corrupt file or the e-mail was not been send to you properly. It can also be download problem because the e-mail file you download to your hardisk it get hang-up along the way because of a busy line. You may do so check your line connection if it is okey and sometimes your e-mail has a limited capacity that it accept. Why not send it as a zip file? to make much more smaller so that there will no more problem on downloading. Hope this make sense and gives you a little bit of help.

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Mel Arquiza
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by rick.philips9

I tried this with a zip file and the same problem occurred. My line connection is DSL and currently downloads at about 90-95 kb/s. (approx 5.2M/min.) The same file downloads and saves fine on another comp. --- with the same config. --- using the same mail client. (outlook express 6)

by rick.philips9

Thank you for the reply; (I checked that web page)however the setting regarding saving the files that are potentially dangerous was not checked. I have been able to save large documents and large pdf files (1-2M) but not a zip or exe of that size.

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