Re: Shortcuts do not work when using Insert/File Attachment
- From: "DGuess" <majik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:37:16 -0600
"Millicent" <Millicent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have just upgraded to Windows XP from Windows 2000.
> In Outlook Express under Windows 2000 if I created a new message and then
> went to Insert/File Attachment and clicked on one of my desktop folder
> shortcuts, it would open the folder and allow me to select something
> inside
> the folder to attach. In other words a FOLDER SHORTCUT behaved in exactly
> the
> same way as a FOLDER.
> In Windows XP if I do the same thing, it adds the SHORTCUT file, example
> FOLDERNAME.lnk, as the attachment - which is pretty useless. I can't
> imagine
> why anyone would want to send an attachment of a FOLDER SHORTCUT.
> A couple of interesting things I have discovered in trying to solve this
> problem.
> 1. If I choose Insert/Text from File or Insert/Picture, the FOLDER
> shortcuts
> work as they should and open.
> 2. A friend is using Outlook 2003 under Windows XP and the Insert/File
> option in that program does NOT behave the same way - it allows the user
> to
> open the FOLDER SHORTCUT. So why would the Microsoft program that you have
> to
> buy behave differently from the one that you get for free with Windows XP?
> Is
> this to try to entice us to buy Outlook.
> Please note: I know I can work around this problem by opening the shortcut
> and dragging the files to the message or by finding the file by going
> through
> the C: drive. BUT that kind of defeats the purpose of using FOLDER
> SHORTCUTS,
> which I use all the time to navigate around my computer given I have a
> large
> number of documents stored in a very hierarchical structure.
> Can anyone help with an answer to this - or is it just something I have to
> put up with?
Actually I think this has been a bug for years. There is no work around that
I'm aware of and I doubt there will be since the nature of the beast is to
take whatever file that is selected and attach it.
It just seems that the logic used to detect a shortcut to a folder or file
was not used to select the actual path of the folder or file then open it
(in the case of a folder).
.
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