"Shortcut" is the operative word here. Apparently your email program won't
send the shortcut (I tried it and all I get is in the body of the message
the path to the actual associated file) as an attachment because it is only
a link to the actual file.
Therefore you need to right click the actual file then do the Send to Mail
Recipient thing - it doesn't work with shortcuts.
"Doug" <doug@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OPYMcLjyIHA.5620@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Thanks, Andrew
>
> My email client is Windows Mail.
>
> To clarify (I expressed it badly in my original post and may have misled
> you), I click on a shortcut to a document, select Send to/Mail Recipient
> and what ends up attached to the resultant Windows Mail message is the LNK
> file (perhaps 1kb) and not the file (JPG, DOC, PDF or whatever, but seldom
> less than 30kb) to which the LNK file is pointing. Are you really saying
> that your Outlook installation automatically perceives that, in selecting
> the shortcut, you had intended to send the underlying document? If so that
> is what I would like Windows Mail to do for me.
>
>
> "Andrew Murray" <ad-ANTI-SPAM_murray@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:43B17A0D-8E5C-44BA-8470-4FEC092FA1D5@xxxxxx Quote:
>> Strange, but when I do the same thing, and Outlook opens, with the file I
>> right-clicked/Send to Mail Recipient as an Attachment like it should do.
>>
>> It could have something to do with the email client you're
>> using.....which is it that you use?
>>
>> Outlook/Mail/Live Mail or something else like Thunderbird?
>>
>>
>> "Doug" <doug@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:eyxXMlgyIHA.1436@xxxxxx Quote:
>>> I should know better, but I make the same mistake again and again when I
>>> am absorbed in my work. I right-click on the document I want to Send
>>> to/Mail Mail Recipient, and find that what I had selected was NOT the
>>> document, just a LINK to the document.
>>>
>>> Is there any way of activating a user option to chose, at that moment,
>>> between the link and the underlying document? Vista has plenty of
>>> exasperating UAC serial popup messages (eg five clicks just to do a Disk
>>> Cleanup), but a warning/option in this case would be welcome. Perhaps
>>> this feature is available and I just need to enable it?
>>>
>>> Doug
>