[gui-talk] outlook and attachments.

[Antonio M. Guimaraes]

Thanks Ed.

Wish I could do it sooner, but will arrange for the drive to be taken out 
this weekend, or I can just open her up and do it myself.

Thank you for the needed worning. Glad I am starting to read this list.

Antonio Guimaraes
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Lain" <edlain at sbcglobal.net>
To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 2:41 AM
Subject: [gui-talk] outlook and attachments.


> Problem solved. Thanks to all of you for your advice. Andrew, you are
> correct. I had my sighted friend come up and this is the result:
>
> Open e-mail with attachment. In my situation it simply said, "zipped and
> attached". Nothing more.
>
> Go to the file menue, arrow down to "save attachment". Hit enter and the
> name of the file is read.
>
> Hit enter a second time and the attachment is saved in "my documents".
>
> I then, must go to the desktop and open "my computer", then, look for "my
> documents". Next, open "my documents" and look for the file name. Open the
> file and you can read it.
>
> Wow! Its cumbersome but it works. Does anyone know of a short cut key to 
> "my
> documents" so I don't have to go through that rigamarow?
>
> Antonio, may I offer some advice concerning your computer locking up? I 
> had
> the same problem about threee months ago and eventually my hard drive 
> failed
> and I lost years of research documents and addresses.
>
> You wrote in part:
>
> "One very experienced computer technician heard of my experience and
> recommended. . . that I totally disconnect and remove the apparently
> offending drive."
>
>
>
> He is correct, for I was having the same problem you are having and kept
> getting warnings but ignored them. Finally the hard drive failed and total
> disaster.
>
>
>
> Antonio, get rid of that falty drive!
>
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>
> Ed
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