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Question

I can't send pix from My Pictures to my email msgs to send o

Apr 23, 2015 11:13AM PDT

I always was able to send my pictures from "My Pictures" to my email message to be sent out, by clicking on "Attachments" which would take me to "My Pictures" where I'd choose the ones I wanted by double clicking on each one. Then those pictures would land on my message and I'd send it on.

This time, I did exactly the same, but instead of doing the right thing as I explained above, it takes me to the "Photo Gallery" which is nice to view, but not to send out. I can't understand why this time it does this.

Please someone could tell me how to copy my photos to my email message? Thanks ever so much for any ideas!

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Clarification Request
Can't tell what email app this is.
Apr 23, 2015 11:17AM PDT

Try this in Thunderbird next time.
Bob

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I can't send pix from My Pictures to my email msgs to send.
Apr 23, 2015 2:11PM PDT

Thank you R. Proffit, I'm sorry I forgot to give my data. Here it is:

[Dell Inspiron 560 desktop; MS Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64bit; Windows Live Mail 2012; MS Word Pro 2003; Mozilla Firefox 22.0]

I don't have Thunderbird, although I'm gathering enough courage to change into it since Windows Live Mail has become intolerable with their, by now, thousands of impossible glitches! Grrrrrr!

Hope you have some ideas for me? Thanks so much again!

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Re: attachments
Apr 23, 2015 5:14PM PDT

I don't know WLM, but in all e-mail progrqams I've seen the 'insert attachment' brings you to a dialog where you can browse the whole computer. After all, you should have the option to attach documents or spreadsheets or zip-files or, in fact, every file in the system. Since My Pictures is just a folder on the hard disk, you can browse to that folder and insert what you want.

So it's rather unclear why you can't do that.

Kees

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I can't send pix from My Pictures to my email msgs to send
Apr 24, 2015 12:33AM PDT

Thank you Kees, and yes, it is a puzzle. I never had this happened before. Thanks again.

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I can't send pix from My Pictures to my email msgs to send
Apr 24, 2015 2:52AM PDT

I thought you'd like to know that in trying to find a way to send these photos and finish this matter, I decided to try dragging them into my message where they arrived as attachments and it worked! HOWEVER.....when I opened them to see if it was correct....I noticed that it was like a photo gallery where on clicking on the attachment it shows you ALL photos one by one. Not only I didn't want ALL photos to be sent out, but I'm afraid they may harm the recipient's computer because of the large size of these photos.

If this enlightens any of you to find the way to drag them WITHOUT all the photos in the folder, please let me know?

Thanks so much!