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Question

photo from email to My Pictures

Feb 4, 2015 2:40PM PST

I often get email with photo attachments. I want to save one to Pictures but I nothing i do allows me to do that. I open the photo but when i click File>Save As >enter a name >and click Save, it appears in Pictures as an email andi then have to access the photo by clicking the attachment. Can't i save that photo and just have it appear as a separate entity in the album?

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Re: saving email
Feb 4, 2015 4:07PM PST

Usually you can, in the usual e-mail programs. But you have to do it the right way.

Since you don't tell what e-mail program you use (Windows 7 doesn't have one, so it's totally undefined) it's impossible to tell more. But to save an attachment, you don't need to open it, so if your write "I open the photo [and] click File>Save as" you're doing it the wrong way, that's sure.

Kees

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save photo from email attachment
Feb 5, 2015 2:55AM PST

Sorry... should have provided more info. I have Windows 7... Office 2013... and use Outlook for email. And you are right... i am doing it the wrong way.

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Re: the wrong way.
Feb 5, 2015 4:49AM PST

Yes, it seems you save the mail. You should save the attachement. How about a right click on the attachment?

Kees

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Feb 5, 2015 5:47AM PST

I right clicked and managed to save just the photo. My memory just flew the coop for a while... i've done this before but not for a long while and just plain forgot.Thanks!!! i appreciate you time and help.

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Forgetting
Mar 10, 2015 1:38PM PDT

I've been playing around with these things for over 20 years and have had the exact same experience. I knew I had done a particular operation before many times but if I haven't done it in the last year of so, it's a lost cause. You young folk who are having a laugh about this, trust me your time is coming. What I was trying to say from the beginning, I totally understand.