I have an old email with attached file. I can open the email but the attached
file is no longer there. What is the procedure to recover this attachment?
Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

Do all your attachments get removed?
Is this pop configeration or?

"karlv" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have an old email with attached file. I can open the email but the
>attached
> file is no longer there. What is the procedure to recover this
> attachment?
> Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

What happened to it? Did you delete the attachment?

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"karlv" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have an old email with attached file. I can open the email but the
> attached
> file is no longer there. What is the procedure to recover this
> attachment?
> Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

karlv wrote:

> I have an old email with attached file. I can open the email but the attached
> file is no longer there. What is the procedure to recover this attachment?
> Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

There is no separate file floating around that somehow uses an ethereal
connection to a particular e-mail object. The attachment is *inside*
the e-mail. Attachments are encoded into a long text string (because
ALL e-mail gets sent as plain text) within a MIME section within the
body of the e-mail. It is your e-mail client that hides that section
and presents it as an attachment.

If the attachment is missing then the e-mail is corrupt or the MIME
section has been removed from the e-mail. E-mail is not for file
storage. If you didn't save the attachment elsewhere, and if it is no
longer available from the e-mail, then you'll have to get the original
sender of that e-mail to resend you that file.

Or, if you perform regular backups then you could restore an earlier
copy of the .pst file, like to a temp folder, and use File -> Open in
Outlook to load that recovered message store and dig around in there
looking for the e-mail with the attachment.

I think that attachments do not get archived with the email. It seems this
only happens to older emails. I'm not sure the time frame but all
attachemnts I received will have to be saved to the PC for later access if
needed. Than you for your response DL. I apologize for my late response.

"DL" wrote:

> Do all your attachments get removed?
> Is this pop configeration or?
>
> "karlv" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:AC8B4CE1-8968-4E31-9300-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I have an old email with attached file. I can open the email but the
> >attached
> > file is no longer there. What is the procedure to recover this
> > attachment?
> > Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.
>
>
>

thank you Diane. I think the real issue is when the emails get archived
without attachments. Thank you for your response and links. I apologize for
my late response.

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

> What happened to it? Did you delete the attachment?
>
> --
> Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
> Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
> Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
>
> Outlook Tips by email:
> mailto:dailytips-subscribe-(E-Mail Removed)
>
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> mailto:EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-(E-Mail Removed)
>
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> newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.
>
>
> "karlv" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:AC8B4CE1-8968-4E31-9300-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I have an old email with attached file. I can open the email but the
> > attached
> > file is no longer there. What is the procedure to recover this
> > attachment?
> > Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.
>
>

I think this is what is happening with my older email attachments. backing
up my pst file periodically maybe an option. Thank you for your response
VanguardLH. I apologize for my late response.

"VanguardLH" wrote:

> karlv wrote:
>
> > I have an old email with attached file. I can open the email but the attached
> > file is no longer there. What is the procedure to recover this attachment?
> > Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.
>
> There is no separate file floating around that somehow uses an ethereal
> connection to a particular e-mail object. The attachment is *inside*
> the e-mail. Attachments are encoded into a long text string (because
> ALL e-mail gets sent as plain text) within a MIME section within the
> body of the e-mail. It is your e-mail client that hides that section
> and presents it as an attachment.
>
> If the attachment is missing then the e-mail is corrupt or the MIME
> section has been removed from the e-mail. E-mail is not for file
> storage. If you didn't save the attachment elsewhere, and if it is no
> longer available from the e-mail, then you'll have to get the original
> sender of that e-mail to resend you that file.
>
> Or, if you perform regular backups then you could restore an earlier
> copy of the .pst file, like to a temp folder, and use File -> Open in
> Outlook to load that recovered message store and dig around in there
> looking for the e-mail with the attachment.
>

Attachments are contained within the email, so if the email was archived,
the attachment is within it

"karlv" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I think that attachments do not get archived with the email. It seems this
> only happens to older emails. I'm not sure the time frame but all
> attachemnts I received will have to be saved to the PC for later access if
> needed. Than you for your response DL. I apologize for my late response.
>
> "DL" wrote:
>
>> Do all your attachments get removed?
>> Is this pop configeration or?
>>
>> "karlv" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:AC8B4CE1-8968-4E31-9300-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >I have an old email with attached file. I can open the email but the
>> >attached
>> > file is no longer there. What is the procedure to recover this
>> > attachment?
>> > Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.
>>
>>
>>