Saved Attachments

[FiOS Dave]

Is there a way to change the default location for saved attachments?
I would prefer to save them to the Desktop, rather than to the Documents
folder.

Thanks in advance,

Dave

 

[Gordon]

Is there a way to change the default location for saved attachments?
I would prefer to save them to the Desktop, rather than to the Documents
folder.

Which may be your preference but is in fact bad practice. The desktop was
not designed to store data in. Certainly in past times the desktop was very
prone to corruption with consequent loss of data.
Stick with saving attachments in a folder you have created in a place that
is designed for data.

HTH

 

[FiOS Dave]

I use the desktop as a temporary holding place.
Whenever I save an attachment, a link to a website, an image using
the snipping tool or any other piece of information, I save it to the
desktop until
I decide where to move it, or to delete it.
I've been doing this for years with NO ill effects.
I know there must be a location in the registry that can be changed,
and I'll find it sooner or later, however, I was hoping that someone
had already done this and knows where to make the change.

Dave

 

[Dave]

AFAIK, there's no default setting. My WM remembers the last folder I saved
an attachment to, including the Desktop.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I use the desktop as a temporary holding place.
Whenever I save an attachment, a link to a website, an image using
the snipping tool or any other piece of information, I save it to the
desktop until I decide where to move it, or to delete it.

This IMO is a not a good idea at all!
The desktop is no place for storing files if any kind, not even
temporary ones. Quite some problems may result out if this, the least
one slowing down the opening of Windows when booting.

Far better way: Create a *folder* for the temporary stuff (maybe
somewhere in "My Documents") and place a *LINK*/shortcut to the folder
on the desktop and/wir in the "Quick Launch" list.
This way the stuff is available with just one click

I've been doing this for years with NO ill effects.
I know there must be a location in the registry that can be changed,
and I'll find it sooner or later, however, I was hoping that someone
had already done this and knows where to make the change.

As "VistaRookie" already said, there is no default place for saving
attachments.
But WinMail remembers where an attachment was last stored. And by this
you could easily place all attachments which still need a decision on
being kept in the said basket (folder) for the temporary stuff.

Rainald