I have a friend who sends me a lot of forwarded messages with pictures in
them. When I open the attachment, all I see are a TON of garbled up letter
and numbers instead of the picture. What's up?
Thanks,
Sherry

I see this often, and it is almost always from an AOL user. The problem is
not on your end, but it is, most likely, coming from either an e-mail
program that is incompatible with OE, or from a sender that is incompatible
with a computer.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Sherry" wrote in message
...
I have a friend who sends me a lot of forwarded messages with pictures in
them. When I open the attachment, all I see are a TON of garbled up letter
and numbers instead of the picture. What's up?
Thanks,
Sherry

Sherry

Exactly as Bruce has posted . What you might try and it works for some but not for all is to try and open the message in Plain Text mode and see if those attachments will open correctly while in that mode.. Like I said it works for some. You can also ask your friend who uses AOL to send the email with attachments to you in Plain Text and you also read it in Plain Text versus HTML.

Give it a shot . It may or may not work

--
Peter

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"Sherry" wrote in message ...
I have a friend who sends me a lot of forwarded messages with pictures in
them. When I open the attachment, all I see are a TON of garbled up letter
and numbers instead of the picture. What's up?
Thanks,
Sherry

I'm guessing that you see an EML attachment, and when you open that, you
see the gibberish.

The EML file is the forwarded message. That you see the gibberish
indicates that the file association is wrong for EML files on your PC
and so they are opening in the wrong program (e.g. they are opening in a
word processor rather than Outlook Express).

OLEXP: Unable to Open EML File Attachments in Outlook Express
(Fixing the EML File Association)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=312355


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Sherry" wrote in message
...
I have a friend who sends me a lot of forwarded messages with pictures
in them. When I open the attachment, all I see are a TON of garbled up
letter and numbers instead of the picture. What's up?
Thanks,
Sherry

Thanks, Bruce. But she doesn't have AOL. Must be 'the sender incompatible
with the computer'. ROFLOL
Sherry


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
I see this often, and it is almost always from an AOL user. The problem is
not on your end, but it is, most likely, coming from either an e-mail
program that is incompatible with OE, or from a sender that is incompatible
with a computer.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Sherry" wrote in message
...
I have a friend who sends me a lot of forwarded messages with pictures in
them. When I open the attachment, all I see are a TON of garbled up letter
and numbers instead of the picture. What's up?
Thanks,
Sherry

How do I open the message in plain text?
Sherry


"Peter Foldes" wrote in message
...
Sherry

Exactly as Bruce has posted . What you might try and it works for some but
not for all is to try and open the message in Plain Text mode and see if
those attachments will open correctly while in that mode.. Like I said it
works for some. You can also ask your friend who uses AOL to send the email
with attachments to you in Plain Text and you also read it in Plain Text
versus HTML.

Give it a shot . It may or may not work

--
Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

"Sherry" wrote in message
...
I have a friend who sends me a lot of forwarded messages with pictures in
them. When I open the attachment, all I see are a TON of garbled up
letter
and numbers instead of the picture. What's up?
Thanks,
Sherry

Michael,
No. The attachment just has a .email at the end of it.
Sherry



"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
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I'm guessing that you see an EML attachment, and when you open that, you
see the gibberish.

The EML file is the forwarded message. That you see the gibberish
indicates that the file association is wrong for EML files on your PC
and so they are opening in the wrong program (e.g. they are opening in a
word processor rather than Outlook Express).

OLEXP: Unable to Open EML File Attachments in Outlook Express
(Fixing the EML File Association)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=312355


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Sherry" wrote in message
...
I have a friend who sends me a lot of forwarded messages with pictures in
them. When I open the attachment, all I see are a TON of garbled up letter
and numbers instead of the picture. What's up?
Thanks,
Sherry

A .email (or .ema) or .ezm file is an alternate file extension for an
..EML file. One option is to save the attachment, then rename with an
..EML file name.

Or you can create a file association for .email, .ema or .ezm files.

You can get to File Associations via:
- My Computer
- View (Win95/98/NT4/Me) or Tools (Win2000 or WinXP) menu
- Folder Options (or Options)
- File Types
- New Type
- New
- Action: OPEN

The application used needs to be:
"C:\PROGRAM FILES\OUTLOOK EXPRESS\MSIMN.EXE" /eml:%1


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Sherry" wrote in message
...
Michael,
No. The attachment just has a .email at the end of it.
Sherry



"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
I'm guessing that you see an EML attachment, and when you open that,
you
see the gibberish.

The EML file is the forwarded message. That you see the gibberish
indicates that the file association is wrong for EML files on your PC
and so they are opening in the wrong program (e.g. they are opening in
a
word processor rather than Outlook Express).

OLEXP: Unable to Open EML File Attachments in Outlook Express
(Fixing the EML File Association)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=312355


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Sherry" wrote in message
...
I have a friend who sends me a lot of forwarded messages with pictures
in them. When I open the attachment, all I see are a TON of garbled
up letter and numbers instead of the picture. What's up?
Thanks,
Sherry