Why can't I open attachments in Outlook?

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I think I figured out an easier way to bypass the problem with not being able to open attachments. Try it, works for me every time.

In HOTMAIL I noticed that if the button marked: "Always ask for my
e-mail address and password" is selected I can't open any attachments.
However, when I make sure the button marked: "Save my e-mail address" is selected it opens every time. Could just be a crazy coincidence or I may be onto something regarding the security feature within hotmail.

Post this comment if you find it to be helpful.
My guess is that it might work just the same with other email adresses than hotmail.

Let me know if this works for you...that it's not a fluke.

I found often times renaming them, as in if they are a .exe take off the .exe. Inform the receiver to rename it back. Another is to zip it as well

Every one that has a problem opening attachments with common names like book1.xls and so on, should clear their OLK114 (or like this) because it gets full with files like book154.xls when opening the same file name attachment many times. It helped me I just found this by accident.

I receive and error message each time I try to open attachements from Outlook Express 6. I am using Win2000 Pro, and the security settings in OE are set to allow attachements to be opened. Here is the error message: Access to the specified device, path or file is denied.
This is a new problem, as I have previously NOT had problems opening the attachments (pdf, jpg, doc)
Thank you,
Ellen Carnathan

Sending my utmost appreciation to STan who posted on June 15, 2006 06:39 AM the following: Every one that has a problem opening attachments with common names like book1.xls and so on, should clear their OLK114 (or like this) because it gets full with files like book154.xls when opening the same file name attachment many times. It helped me I just found this by accident. (end of STan's post)

I spent literally hours on the phone with MS trying to solve this problem, and they didn't have a CLUE! And it was corrected as Stan suggested. The OLK14D files were in the temp internet files, but NOT being cleared when I deleted my temp internet files, so I cleared them manually, and ALL attachments open fine in outlook now. Thank you, thank you STan!

when I try to open attatchments it say I have dialog box open and it needs to be closed I don't know how to do that please help

I used to use OpenOffice to read .xls files, but now I use MS Excel. However, Outlook Express still opens .xls files with OpenOffice. I changed the File Types settings (Win XP Pro). If I save the file and double click from the desktop, it will open with MS Excel.

It seems like Outlook Express has cached the old file type setting someplace. Is there a way to get it to use the new setting?

Thanks.

When i click on the paper clip to save attachment it comes up with an error that says "there is an error saving 1 or more attachments. Please check disk space."

I have plenty of disk space.

What's the problem.

Cannot open, save or view attachments in outlook express. The attachments are indicated in light gray. How can I fix this?

My problem is slightly different Outlook Express shows attachments are there and when I double-click on it a window opens up as usual showing the attachment in the Attach window but I can now longer open it as I used to. I have found that I can drag the attachment to the desktop and open it from there , but that is a Pain

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