Can't open tif attachment in Outlook Express

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Can't open tif attachment in Outlook Express

Postby spacekowboy » Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:00 am

All of a sudden tif attachments won't open out of Outlook Express. Normaly "Microsoft Picture and Fax Viewer" opens up. If I save it to the desktop and double-click it will open. Other file types do open directly from the paperclip like pdf. Any suggestions?

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Re: Can't open tif attachment in Outlook Express

Postby Steve » Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:49 pm

If you save the TIF to the file system, can you open it as normal?
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Re: Can't open tif attachment in Outlook Express

Postby spacekowboy » Tue Jul 26, 2011 5:08 am

Yes. I may have soved it. These users open tif attachments all day long directly from email. I notices that creates numerous temp files. I cleared out their temp files and now they can open the attachments. I'll see how it goes
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Re: Can't open tif attachment in Outlook Express

Postby Steve » Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:24 pm

Excellent - Sounds exactly like the problem I solved years ago here - http://www.groovypost.com/howto/microso ... ent-error/

Same problem. users opened up the same file over and over and once it hit 100 (i think) boom - it stopped working.

Take a look there for more information.
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