Why can't I open attachments in Outlook?

Read the article that everyone's commenting on.
Subscribe to the RSS Feed for comments on this article.

I can't open some of the attachments from my boss who also has hughes.net. I contacted hughesnet and they say there isn't a problem with the server. I have Windows XP.

Hello Leo,

I am not able to open any link comes through the job bank to me.I should be able to click on the link and should be able to see the email contents. As soon as I click on the link my computer starts installing a a complete seup of new Adobe 8.

Please help so i can read the link rather than installing a new setup.

Thank you,

Sandeep

Receved automatic updates to xp security last thursday may 15 or so and now i can't open attachments nor make attachments to my email in outlook. I get an upable to open some attachments error message. the OUtlook security menu seems to have changed to a digital id set up. I use out look 2000 Seems like secuirty update has prevented my from getting attachment or adding my vcard to outgoing mail. What up?

i have tried unchecking the security issue but still cannot open links in my email attachments since i have downloaded sp2.i have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the pack.can u help me?thank-you

can't condirm subscription because when I click your link a screen comes up with what program do
you want to use to open this. Nothing lets it
open.

my client's collegue cannot view attatchments recieved straight from within pastel. my client has to send it to herself first before sending it to her collegue. please help.

When I try to open any attachment in outlook 2003:
I get the message “The system cannot find the file specified.”
-> My answer not found anywhere else:

Attachments were stored in c:\Olk30d and on clicking the attachment in outlook it indeed appeared in this directory, before the message “The system cannot find the file specified.” came.

Using utility procmon.exe I could see first this directory was used by outlook but at the last moment it tried to look at e:\Olk30d which folder did not exist.

%Temp and %tmp vars all pointed to e:\Temp and e:\temp\myname, so possibly this was the reason it started using the e: partition.

Outlook Registry key was: \Olk30d

Fixed via setting outlook registry key to e:\Olk30d.
Maybe it is of help for others.

Leo
I am unable to open pdf files which are attachments to Outlook Express (6) emails. All other attachemnts (jpg.doc etc) open without problem.
I regularly get an error message telling me that the file is not assiciated with a programme - but in the Control Panel, File Options pdf files ARE associated with Adobe Reader (9).
Any suggestions?

For Outlook 2003 sp3 when you try to save the outlook item with attachments as an Outlook Message format (.msg) say in your local drive, right click the .msg set the properties to read only and click on Apply and then try to open it gives error message could not open one or more attachments and it always opens message minus one attachment, for instance if there are 2 attachments it will only open one attachment.

For some time I had a lot of trouble with attachments not staying attached / not arriving at destination. I am using Microsoft Outlook.
Solved the problem yesterday. I simply TURNED OFF RICH TEXT in favour of PLAIN TEXT. No more problem. Clay

To post a comment on "Why can't I open attachments in Outlook?", please return to that article's main page.