3dbman said:
When I try to open an attached file on a received email,
We are to guess what is the filetype for the attachment? Do you have a
program installed that can handle the unidentified filetypes? Outlook
doesn't open any attachments. It passes the file onto a handler program.
I get an error message, Access Denied.
You really sure that was the COMPLETE error message presented to you?
Why does this happen and how do I correct this problem?
You never mentioned HOW you are opening the attachments. Are you saving
them to a file on your hard disk and then trying to open that file?
Or are you trying to "open" them from Outlook? Opening (rather than saving)
attachments in Outlook means it has to open *something*. Attachments are
not files. They are merely long strings of encoded data within a MIME part
in the body of your e-mail (that are presented as "attachments" in the UI
for your e-mail client). The attachment is *in* your e-mail, not some file
floating out in the ether that gets magically linked to the e-mail. Opening
or saving the attachment means decoding that long string. For any program
to *use* that attachment means to decode it and put it SOMEWHERE that the
program can access. That means the attachment gets put into a file. If you
open an attachment, Outlook decodes the attachment, saves it into a file
within Outlook's secured temporary folder, and then passes the file to
whatever is the handler designated for that filetype. When you exit the
program that loaded the temporary file, and upon proper exit of Outlook,
those temporary files are deleted. Any edits you made to them would be to
the file created under Outlook's temporary folder. If you Save the
attachment, Outlook decodes the attachment and puts that data into the
specified file. It is then up to you to load whatever program you want to
edit the file, and those edits will be saved to that file.
If you Open the attachment (which means Outlook created a temporary file),
and to see it outside of Outlook (and to whatever handler program Outlook
passed the temporary file), enter the path for Outlook's secured temporary
folder into the Address bar of Windows Explorer. To find the folder name,
look in the registry under:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\<version>\Outlook\Security
where <version> is whatever version of Outlook that you installed; e.g.,
10.0 for Office XP, 11.0 for Office 2003, and so on. The data item named
"OutlookSecureTempFolder" points to Outlook's temporary file path.
Also read:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/securetemp.htm