Cannot Open Attachments

[Guest]

I cannot open attachments in Win Mail. I have already unchecked the security
feature about blocking certain attachments. When I go to Save As, i get a
"cannot execute command" error. When I try to open the attachment, nothing
happens.

 

[Steve Cochran]

Turn off email scanning of your antivirus software and then see if you can.
See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

steve

 

[Guest]

I can't open or save attachments from Windows Mail. Antivirus (Vet) disabled
so is email scanner. Security settings unticked. When I try to save
attachments (regardless of whatever file they are), a message appears: "There
was an error saving one or more of your attachments. Please check your free
disk space and try again." I have 130Gb free on HDD & 1 Gb RAM. Win Vista
Home Premium.

 

[mikeyhsd]

reboot the computer and try again.
usually works for me.

(e-mail address removed)@sport.rr.com

I can't open or save attachments from Windows Mail. Antivirus (Vet) disabled
so is email scanner. Security settings unticked. When I try to save
attachments (regardless of whatever file they are), a message appears: "There
was an error saving one or more of your attachments. Please check your free
disk space and try again." I have 130Gb free on HDD & 1 Gb RAM. Win Vista
Home Premium.

 

[Guest]

This problem has been going on 3 weeks since computer was bought. rebooting
isn't helping at all.

 

[Steve Cochran]

Go to Start | Search and type msconfig.

Then go to Startup and uncheck everything. Then go to Services and disable
all non-MS services and then disconnect from the internet and reboot. Then
open a message with an attachment and see if you can save it.

If you can, then its one of those startup items that is causing the problem
and you can selectively enable them to see which it is. If not, then you
can re-enable the startup items and reverse what you did above and that will
at least rule out other programs as the culprit.

Normally, if functionality is messed up like this, then is some other
program that is interfering, which is why I suggest the above.

steve

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem????tried all of these suggestions, still not working
!!HElp please.

 

[Guest]

I've got the same problem since installing Vista Ultimate yesterday, and
can't seem to open or save attachments from windows mail. There has to be an
easy fix for this, I just wish someone would share it.

 

[Steve Cochran]

If you have Norton or McAfee then uninstall it and you'll then be able to
save attachments.

steve

 

[Guest]

I've uninstalled Symantec (norton) and it still does not work. The only anti
virus or security I have now is windows Live Onecare

 

[Guest]

I have since removed all Anti virus/ programs that could be causeing this
problem to no avail . now getting there was an error trying to save
attachment please check your free disc space & try again!!!!!! 197 gig of
free space how much does it need????????????????????? Microsoft Help please

 

[Guest]

I've started to use Windows Mail for newsgroups and started to see a lot of
problems that were not around in OE6 :0( !!!!

I get this error too: "There was an error saving one or more of the
attachments."

AV has been turned off and i got about 50GB of HD space left

Also when i try to Combine and Decode large binaries i get "an error has
occured"

What the hell is going on with Windows Mail...???!!!!

Isn't it supposed to be better then OE6 ??

Anyway, anyone got a solution to these problems?

are MS going to release any hotfixes/patches etc for Windows Mail.

Cheers,
Riaz

 

[Steve Cochran]

what AV? Try uninstalling it.

steve

I've started to use Windows Mail for newsgroups and started to see a lot
of
problems that were not around in OE6 :0( !!!!

I get this error too: "There was an error saving one or more of the
attachments."

AV has been turned off and i got about 50GB of HD space left

Also when i try to Combine and Decode large binaries i get "an error has
occured"

What the hell is going on with Windows Mail...???!!!!

Isn't it supposed to be better then OE6 ??

Anyway, anyone got a solution to these problems?

are MS going to release any hotfixes/patches etc for Windows Mail.

Cheers,
Riaz

 

[Guest]

Anyone actually know the answer to this problem. done everything on the
subject listed, to no avail

 

[Guest]

You have to fw.attac.into folder,then you can bring them back out.Stange huh
Hope you hace luck.

 

[Guest]

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[Cal Bear '66]

Save the attachment to disk first and then you will be able to open it.

 

[Guest]

I also have tried everything on these posts and I get the same answer. Way
too frustrating.

 

[ESTEFANY]

alguien que hable español???????????????????????''

 

[Guest]

For me the problem is related to the size of the attachment...
upto 5mb seems OK while over 15mb gets an error,
although on one occasion a reboot allowed one 20mb save
followed by further errors. I think it is a space/memory
issue but haven't any real evidence.