E-mailing Pictures

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When I e-mail pictures or forward picturesthey broken into many e-mails and no can see them. I forwarded a e-mail to mysel that had two pictures (jpegs) and it came accross 8 different e-mails in my box and no pictures. I thought my friends were nuts when they said the could not open any of the 8 files that arrived. This does not happen with text or word files. Hope someone can help.
Mike
 
The size of your photo files are probably the problem.
Your internet provider places a limit on the file size you can attach to an
e-mail.
If you are on XP and use Outlook for e-mail, when you right click on a photo
and then click on Send and E-mail, a box should open offering to resize the
image for e-mail. If you don't have this or don't use this procedure (you
open your e-mail software and then you use Insert and then select the file)
try to resize the images first and then insert the much smaller file.
Here are ways to do this:

To decrease the size of the file for e-mail, web publishing etc.



Go to this site and download the free Image Resizer. Exe file in one of your
folder.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Once in your folder, double click on it to install it.

Once installed, you right click on a photo file (or on a group of selected
photo files).

Click on Resize image on the opening menu.

A window will open, select the size you want.

New files will be added in your folder, same name as original file but with
the word (small) added.



The first time you use it, you may not see Resize image on the opening menu
after you right click on the file or if you see it, it may not work. If so,
do the following:

Click on Run, click on Start and type the following in the textbox:

REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL

and press the Enter key.

Note that there is a space between ...32 and SHI.



Also, you can download a free batch converter from here to resize pictures
and edit photos:

http://irfanview.com/



Mike Walden said:
When I e-mail pictures or forward picturesthey broken into many e-mails
and no can see them. I forwarded a e-mail to mysel that had two pictures
(jpegs) and it came accross 8 different e-mails in my box and no pictures. I
thought my friends were nuts when they said the could not open any of the 8
files that arrived. This does not happen with text or word files. Hope
someone can help.
 
Hello Yves Alarie,
Thank you for your reply. Does it make difference if I am using Outlook Express 6.0? It never had a problem before until I went to e-mail a large picture file and it said to break up the file into several e-mails and I selected that option and since then it breaks even little pictures into several files and no one can see them. Is there a way just to revese it back to the orignal settings?
Thanks for your help,
Mike
 
Outlook and Outlook Express work the same way.
However, what you wrote, "break the file into several e-mails" is something
I am not familiar with. I really don't know how you received this message.
Try it another way.
Open My Computer, open the folder, click on the photo you want to send. Look
at the menu on the left under "Picture tasks". You should have the item
"E-mail this item". Click on it. A window will open, offering to resize the
image for e-mail. Then Outlook Express will open and a new smaller size file
will be attached and you complete the message.

If this windows does not open, or if E-mail this item is not there, repair
this way:
Click on Start, click on Run and type the following in the opening textbox:
REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL
and press Enter.
Note that there is a space between ...32 and SHI...

I am curious about this "break up file...", never seen this before. Maybe it
is from your Internet provider, but I really don't know.

Mike Walden said:
Hello Yves Alarie,
Thank you for your reply. Does it make difference if I am using Outlook
Express 6.0? It never had a problem before until I went to e-mail a large
picture file and it said to break up the file into several e-mails and I
selected that option and since then it breaks even little pictures into
several files and no one can see them. Is there a way just to revese it back
to the orignal settings?
 
Go to 'Tools|Accounts|Mail|(your email account)|Properties|Advanced' and
remove the checkmark from the "Break apart messages larger than (xx) KB"
checkbox.

Hal
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Mike Walden said:
Hello Yves Alarie,
Thank you for your reply. Does it make difference if I am using Outlook
Express 6.0? It never had a problem before until I went to e-mail a large
picture file and it said to break up the file into several e-mails and I
selected that option and since then it breaks even little pictures into
several files and no one can see them. Is there a way just to revese it back
to the orignal settings?
 
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