Re: opening documents with attachments

2011-05-22 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Denise: To add to John and Tim's suggestions, it may be that you need to interact with the file before the attachment will open. Carolyn On May 22, 2011, at 7:55 AM, Denise Avant wrote: > hi all, > i saved an e-mail on my mac to the documents folder. the e-mail has > attachments, and in fact

Re: opening documents with attachments

2011-05-22 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, If you've saved the actual eMail to the Documents folder, then when the eMail is opened in TextEdit, simply navigate to the area of the document where the imbedded file is announced and then VO-space on it. This will open the attachment. Otherwise, you'll need to save the attachments prio

Re: opening documents with attachments

2011-05-22 Thread Jon Cohn
What type of file is the main file? If it is a RTF with attachments, then the file is actually a "package". So you can open the contextual menu and request "View package contents". Jon On May 22, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Denise Avant wrote: > hi all, > i saved an e-mail on my mac to the documents f

opening documents with attachments

2011-05-22 Thread Denise Avant
hi all, i saved an e-mail on my mac to the documents folder. the e-mail has attachments, and in fact that box is checked. when i went to open the document it opened in text edit, but i could not get the attachment. all i heard was that a file was embedded. can anyone help? thanks. -- You recei