I just made an exact copy (so I thought) of my old hard drive to a new one,
using the manufacturer's copy program. When I use OE on my new drive, I
can't open or save attachments. When I double-click on the attachment file,
nothing happens. When I right click, and try to save an attachmetn, I get a
can't save error message.

If I boot to my old drive and use OE, the attachment access is fine. If I
direct OE on the old drive to use the store folders on the new drive, the
attachment access is still fine. Therefore, I must conclude that there is
something wrong with OE on the new drive.

Anyone have any idea how I can fix this?

toolsoptionssecurity, uncheck do not allow attachments............

The default setting is the safe bet, to avoid accidentally opening or saving
viral code.

Charlie


"Michael" wrote in message
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I just made an exact copy (so I thought) of my old hard drive to a new one,
using the manufacturer's copy program. When I use OE on my new drive, I
can't open or save attachments. When I double-click on the attachment file,
nothing happens. When I right click, and try to save an attachmetn, I get a
can't save error message.

If I boot to my old drive and use OE, the attachment access is fine. If I
direct OE on the old drive to use the store folders on the new drive, the
attachment access is still fine. Therefore, I must conclude that there is
something wrong with OE on the new drive.

Anyone have any idea how I can fix this?

I wish it were that simple. Remember, I made an exact copy of one drive to
another. The settings for OE are still preserved, including the allow
attachments checkbox.

Strangely, if the attachment is a picture, I can see the picture embedded in
the body of the e-mail. I just can't open it by clicking on it.


"Charlie Tame" wrote in message
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toolsoptionssecurity, uncheck do not allow attachments............

The default setting is the safe bet, to avoid accidentally opening or
saving viral code.

Charlie


"Michael" wrote in message
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I just made an exact copy (so I thought) of my old hard drive to a new
one, using the manufacturer's copy program. When I use OE on my new drive,
I can't open or save attachments. When I double-click on the attachment
file, nothing happens. When I right click, and try to save an attachmetn,
I get a can't save error message.

If I boot to my old drive and use OE, the attachment access is fine. If I
direct OE on the old drive to use the store folders on the new drive, the
attachment access is still fine. Therefore, I must conclude that there is
something wrong with OE on the new drive.

Anyone have any idea how I can fix this?

Ah, is this just the one attachment Michael?

If so you may not have a program set up to open that file type. Do other
pictures work?

I've seen a few gifs and jpgs that are malformed, and one program will open
them, another one will not etc etc. If you can't open it manually by right
click, open withchoose programalways use this program to open this type of
file then you might consider downloading something like irfanview from
www.irfanview.com to see if that will open it.

Charlie

(Sorry I am guessing here)

"Michael" wrote in message
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I wish it were that simple. Remember, I made an exact copy of one drive to
another. The settings for OE are still preserved, including the allow
attachments checkbox.

Strangely, if the attachment is a picture, I can see the picture embedded
in the body of the e-mail. I just can't open it by clicking on it.


"Charlie Tame" wrote in message
...
toolsoptionssecurity, uncheck do not allow attachments............

The default setting is the safe bet, to avoid accidentally opening or
saving viral code.

Charlie


"Michael" wrote in message
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I just made an exact copy (so I thought) of my old hard drive to a new
one, using the manufacturer's copy program. When I use OE on my new
drive, I can't open or save attachments. When I double-click on the
attachment file, nothing happens. When I right click, and try to save an
attachmetn, I get a can't save error message.

If I boot to my old drive and use OE, the attachment access is fine. If
I direct OE on the old drive to use the store folders on the new drive,
the attachment access is still fine. Therefore, I must conclude that
there is something wrong with OE on the new drive.

Anyone have any idea how I can fix this?

No...it's all attachments, regardless of type. I can't open them or save
them.

This happened because I copied a bootable drive to a new one. The old one
still works fine, but this bug appears on the new drive.

"Charlie Tame" wrote in message
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Ah, is this just the one attachment Michael?

Go to File | Identities and set up a new Identity. See if that fixes it.

Also make sure no 3rd party program is interfering. See
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

steve

"Michael" wrote in message
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No...it's all attachments, regardless of type. I can't open them or save
them.

This happened because I copied a bootable drive to a new one. The old one
still works fine, but this bug appears on the new drive.

"Charlie Tame" wrote in message
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Ah, is this just the one attachment Michael?