[funny7023]

Help! Help!! ......... Thanks in advance.

I was using IE5.5 and was able to DOWNLOAD and SAVE hotmail attachments. With all its flaws and problems, the attachments could be saved. Started getting problems with this feature, and the ISP tech help suggested IE6 (now SP1).

Installed IE6 and now cannot DOWNLOAD and SAVE hotmail attachments. I keep getting dumped on the LOGIN screen instead of downloading. Just to test, uninstalled IE6 and IE5.5 restored the saving feature.

* Addnl info:
Win98 SE; IE6 settings are all default; 56K dial up modem to connect internet; online anti-virus software; use MSN Explorer to sign-on

[hewee]

funny7023,

Hotmail can be a pain in the rear.
I have not been able to even get them at all from Netscape and even if I use I.E. somethings I can't get them.

The attachments are never with your email but someplace else as you know so times and I think most attachments come tru ok if it was new email. If someone forward a picture tru hotmail you have trouble most of the time. So find out if it is all new email with the attachments. Making you own .html page and attaching it the person will never be able to see it either because hot mail acts like you clicked a link in the email and it wants to link tru the .html page. The thing os it can not find the page on the web because it is not on the web but it keeps you from seeing it still. You can stop things like that by zipping up the attachments and then hotmail does not take over things the same way. But try the new email and then zipping the attachments.

[Shadow2531]

Join the Club

Yep I also have hotmail. I cannot download the attachments either. I just get presented with the log-on screen also.

I just deal with it , but I should proably look into it since I am not the only one.

[Shadow2531]

figured it out. That was easy.

All I did is drop my privacy and security settings all the way down to low. Not smart, but that allowed me to download the attachment.

actually I didn't have to go that far.

It was just the privacy settings. I normally have it on high and filter out the cookies I want and I allow msn.com, microsoft.com passport.com and hotmail.com as those are the sites that are needed for all of hotmails crap. Anyways I guess no matter what, if you have the privacy setting in IE on high, the attachments won't work, even if you allow all the necessary cookies. As for my security settings, they are near default for internet zone, but I have user data persistence disabled and a few other things bumped up to high.

I do know that msn has been messing with some things cause I had a hotmail login form on my page that worked perfect and now it doesn't work anymore unless I implement all the javascript crap they have on their page. It gives me a hack error. oh well.

[Shadow2531]

just for the heck of it, I tried to download the attachment in Mozilla and it wouldn't work.

So I made it work by changing the advanced attributes of my c:\documents and settings\admininistrator\local settings\temp folder.

I checked "folder is ready for archiving"

then when you click on the "download file button" in hotmail, mozilla automatically downloads it to the temp folder without prompting you. (it appears that it didn't work, but it does)

this is my experience. not sure if it will work for everyone.

in the temp folder, regardless of what the attachment was named when it was sent, when it gets downloaded to the temp folder it will have some weird name with numbers and stuff.

maybe this will work for netscape since it's basically the same.

oh and as for MSN Explorer, don't use it. US IE directily for one. and you don't even need MSN explorer to connect. you just need to set up a dial-up networking connection and only check "enable software compression" and "tcp/ip" in the server tab. Then as your user name put MSN/username and then your password in the password box of course. You can use any one of your local access numbers just as you would with MSN Explorer.

[hewee]

Shadow2531,

Thanks I will try and remember the temp folder with Netscape. I think it just may work the same because tru the time it takes to download but you seem to never get your download.