Hi all,

I'm seeing the same problem too. Is there a workaround for this?

I've always used this OE attachment feature, but now are seeing it on
systems where I run XP SP2 + OE6sp2.

thanks for any tips, help,
Thomas

"PA Bear" wrote:

As the behavior would seem to have nothing whatsoever to do with Outlook
Express, create a new User Profile and see if the behavior persists in it.
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~PA Bear

Millicent wrote:
As stated the machine is up to date - have you any more thoughts on how to
get around this problem

"PA Bear" wrote:

Is the machine fully up-to-date at Windows Update and running SP2?
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

Millicent wrote:
I have just upgraded to Windows XP from Windows 2000.
In Outlook Express under Windows 2000 if I created a new message and
then went to Insert/File Attachment and clicked on one of my desktop
folder shortcuts, it would open the folder and allow me to select
something inside the folder to attach. In other words a FOLDER
SHORTCUT behaved in exactly the same way as a FOLDER.
In Windows XP if I do the same thing, it adds the SHORTCUT file,
example FOLDERNAME.lnk, as the attachment - which is pretty useless.
I can't imagine why anyone would want to send an attachment of a
FOLDER SHORTCUT. A couple of interesting things I have discovered in
trying to solve this problem.
1. If I choose Insert/Text from File or Insert/Picture, the FOLDER
shortcuts work as they should and open.
2. A friend is using Outlook 2003 under Windows XP and the Insert/File
option in that program does NOT behave the same way - it allows the
user to open the FOLDER SHORTCUT. So why would the Microsoft program
that you have to buy behave differently from the one that you get for
free with Windows XP? Is this to try to entice us to buy Outlook.
Please note: I know I can work around this problem by opening the
shortcut and dragging the files to the message or by finding the file
by going through the C: drive. BUT that kind of defeats the purpose
of using FOLDER SHORTCUTS, which I use all the time to navigate
around my computer given I have a large number of documents stored in
a very hierarchical structure.
Can anyone help with an answer to this - or is it just something I
have to put up with?