John said:
Hi Tedmi
The who idea (which I did not actually mention) was to not need to save it
to the HD. Just open, edit and send. We do not need previous versions of the
file.
Not true. You don't edit some copy that is wholly in memory. Outlook
will save the attachment to a disk file in its hidden folder (under an
OLK* name subfolder under the temporary file folder for your web
browser). It has to have the file *somewhere* to then open it (and let
you edit it). The edited copy will be in this hidden folder. You
aren't editing the text-encoded MIME part within the e-mail that has the
attachment. You would then have to attach that edited copy in the OLK*
folder to a new e-mail to send back to the originator. However, working
with the hidden special OLK folder is a hassle, so just save the
attachment where YOU can easily find it, like the desktop (and delete
after e-mailing it), and edit it there.
You are NOT editing the attached file in an e-mail. There is no file in
the e-mail. That file got converted into a text-encoded MIME part that
is INSIDE the body of your e-mail. You possibly could open that e-mail
and do raw editing but I doubt you could figure out how to edit the
encoded text that represents the content of the original file. So do as
tedmi suggested.
Again, there are NO files floating out somewhere that accompany or are
linked to an e-mail. It gets converted (encoded) into a MIME part
within the body of the e-mail. When you get the e-mail, the file's
*content* is stored inside that e-mail. To get it out means decoding
it, and that output has to be stored somewhere so it gets stored in a
file. You are NOT editing the file in an e-mail. You are editing a
wholly separate file that got created on the hard disk so you could
actually used that content that the original file contained.
