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Question

Outlook permission error attaching local xls,doc,jpg,pdf

Feb 10, 2014 6:55AM PST

This is a VERY bizarre problem that I have searched for days to find a solution. It gives me a "You don't have permission..." error in Outlook 2007 on Windows 7 when I try to attach a file from my local My Documents folder IF the file has a jpg, xls, doc, or pdf extension! If the file type is something else like txt, exe, rdp, there is no problem! Also, if the file comes from a network drive, there is no problem! In fact, my temporary workaround fix is to map \\mycomp\documents to a drive letter and access my local documents THROUGH the network! But I can't access it locally. And only certain file extensions cause the problem. And only in Outlook 2007.

I'm not sure if this problem should be in the Windows 7 forum or networking forum or what. But I've never seen this happen where everything works great unless there's a perfect storm of:
1. Attaching in Outlook
2. From a local drive
3. With certain file extensions.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Clarification Request
Sounds familiar.
Feb 10, 2014 7:00AM PST

But I have an incomplete error message so I'll nod and write it's happened to others. I don't recall exactly what it was but with that aside, not much new going on here. Shame MSFT didn't patch that one but maybe they did. The lack of the error message means I can't look for that now except to share it sounds familiar.
Bob

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Sounds familiar, But...
Feb 10, 2014 7:28AM PST

Thanks for the quick reply!
Sorry, I thought I was being complete enough. The full message is:

You don't have permission to open this file. Contact the file owner or administrator to obtain permission.

The message comes up from the "Attach File:" dialog box that comes up when I try to attach a file when composing an email. I have all permissions on the file and folder set to full and my login ID is the owner of both as well. However, as I said, I don't think it has anything to do with permissions because: 1) I have no problem opening the files outside of Outlook, 2) if I move the file to a network folder it works, 3) if I rename the extension it works.

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Clarification Request
Is this file in a "Library"?
Feb 11, 2014 4:51AM PST