It’s been almost one year since I first posted this tip. We have many new visitors this year, and not enough of you are heading my advice yet on this subject, so I’m posting it again. Please believe me when I tell you that this tip alone can save you countless dollars, time, and tears!
Through my travels, I have noticed that many computer users save emails with pictures because they are unsure of how to save those pictures. Saving lots of pictures in your email program can drastically slow down the performance of the email program over time. Email programs typically can handle thousands of messages, but if something happens to the email database, and you haven’t backed up those databases, the pictures will be gone for good. Your best insurance for saving pictures is to save them to a folder on your computer (like My Pictures or a subfolder of My Pictures) then back them up on a regular basis.
To save pictures from your email to a folder on your hard drive, do the following:
Outlook Express
1. Click the paper clip icon in the preview pane*
2. Click Save Attachments
3. In the “Save To” box at the bottom of the dialog box that pops up, click Browse and choose where YOU want to save the pictures and click OK
4. Click Save
* If you read your Outlook Express email in its own window, then RIGHT Click on the attachment name and click Save As
AOL
Click the “Download Now” button at the bottom of the email you are reading and follow on-screen instructions. Remember that most AOL versions automatically download to an AOL Downloads folder in the AOL directory. It differs, however, from version to version.
Juno/NetZero
Depending on your method of reading messages, the technique changes, but generally you should be able to RIGHT click on an attachment and save it.
For any email program that you can see the picture in the body of the message, you can RIGHT click on the photo itself to save it by clicking “Save As” or “Save Picture As”.
Keeping your pictures stored in a known folder allows you to access the pictures easier, print them easier and most importantly gives you the ability to back them up. For more tips about receiving, printing and sending pictures via email, browse through our tips archive.
Watch the video below for a demonstration of this tip.
There is no “Download Now” prompt at the bottom of my AOL e-mail.
Windows still sucks.
When I click save to computer it says I have to by winzip. God sucks too.
So I have learned how to save the pic from e-mail now to folder but some of them go into the folder and are not visible, the have a cover over them that looks sort of like a calendar, they show up when I put them on someplace like e-bay, but they are covered in the folder. I saved as and folder. One was visible the rest were not, what is the difference and how do I change it??
I will be waiting for a reply on my above question, I forgot to mark the boxes so came back to do that.
I just figured out the answer to my own question LOL.
When I save as from file pulldown it puts the cover on them, when I save as from right clicking it does not. wow!!
Now I am having trouble with just one of the e-mail photos, when it goes into the folder and I open it, it is a tiny little pic in the middle of the page, the others did not do that. Any reason??
When I try to save my photo is says an error has occured and to check my disk space. I have more than 1/2 left of a 3GB RAM. Any ideas? I’ve defragged, disk cleaned, cleaned out email stuff, scanned stuff!
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