TSGL: OE attachments

[Tilman Brandl]

Hi Don,

I'm with you - very much. The best we can do is *laugh* about MS's inventions - in order to maybe save our sanity, right ;-)

No, basically the attachments are *NOT* stored in a temp folder. From how I read the source I submitted, the attachments are scrambled inside the message in the appropriate *.dbx file. 

ONLY when you *open* the attachment from within the message or -certainly- if we open and *edit* it, then it's saved in this temp folder. I'm not sure what happens if you don't edit, but just view it and close it again. Would take a test to find out. Anyway, if you use to clean out temp internet files on a regular basis, these temp copies would be deleted as well.

The original attachment is really lost only whenever you clean out the message where it's attached to. Otherwise you can always go back and open an old attachment, as long as you still have the message it clings to.

Tilman
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Don Penlington 
  To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List 
  Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 4:03 PM
  Subject: TSGL: OE attachments


  Tilman wrote:
  >The answer I've found is at 
  >http://email.about.com/od/outlookexpresstips/qt/et030806.htm>>


  Oh my goodness. Only Ms could think of such a non-intuitive convoluted 
  horrible way of doing things. No wonder I couldn't find them.

  In Eudora, attachment files are stored in a sub-folder called "attachments" 
  in the Eudora folder.  That's ideal for simple minded people like myself.

    Thx Tilman. That was good research. You've restored what's left of my 
  sanity.

  Or have you?

  It occurs to me that if the attachments are stored in Temp Internet Files, 
  as the article says, then won't they be deleted every time you close IE, if 
  IE advanced options are set to empty that folder every time IE closes 
  (which is a normal security precaution)?

  Don Penlington

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