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e-mailing photos

Mar 15, 2004 3:40AM PST

I am trying to help my neighbor to solve a problem in his operating system W98. It seems when he tries to send photos via an attachment from any photos saved on his system the photo will load in its entirety rather than just sending the url (jpg.etc). Any help is appreciated. I don't seem to have the problem using ME.

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Re:e-mailing photos
Mar 15, 2004 4:02AM PST

If the photo is on his computer, how can there be a URL? Doesn't a URL indicate that the photo would need to be on a web page? Maybe I am missing something here.

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Re:Re:e-mailing photos
Mar 17, 2004 1:42AM PST

CharleyO - Maybe I misstated by indicating a URL maybe should be an attachment. Anyway he constantly loads the entire picture rather than the shortcut to open the photo. Any ideas to solve this is appreciated. Thanks, John

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Mar 17, 2004 2:21AM PST

Sounds like everything is working as it should. If your friend e-mailed a shortcut rather than the actual photo file, his recipient would be unable to open it since the shortcut is pointing to a file on the sender's computer.

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Re:e-mailing photos
Mar 15, 2004 5:17AM PST

It seems perfectly normal to me that an attachment to an email in Outlook Express is sent as an attached file, not as a shortcut or hyperlink (which is about the same, I think).
So you better tell exactly and detailed how you do it in ME.

Kees

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Re:e-mailing photos
Mar 15, 2004 7:15AM PST

If you try to email a photo using a url, you first need to up load the photo to a server like shutterfly or some other then click on the photo to get the url. You can then post the url in you email and when clicked on it will bring up the picture. Other wise, you will have to attach the picture which it will send in its intirety.