Vista - Sending a large attachment.

Thanks for the feedback.
Glad to hear that it might work better this way.

All the best for your biography project!

Regrads
Rainald
P.S. Thanks for the kind invitation. It's a bit far, however, from
Germany to "down under" ;-)


Spudee shared these words of wisdom:

> G'day Rainald,
>
> Bit worried that my problem still bugged you down at the pub! But I
> think your suggestion may have worked. I downloaded
> www.irfanview.com as you suggested and then using the 'image' menu,
> reduced the image to 25% of its original size. I then sent it to
> myself as an email attachment firstly with no luck as I couldn't
> open the file format it arrived in. So I thought about you having
> mentioned saving it as a jpeg file and did this. I then created a
> new test Word document, inserted the irfanview editted image and
> sent it again. Voila, it worked. Now I will go back to my original
> attachment, delete the photos and after re-sizing the originals on
> irfanview, reinsert them and see what happens. But it looks
> promising. By the way, the document is an overview of an incredible
> biography I have written and which a couple of film producers seem
> to be interested in; hence my need to get this thing done. I will
> keep you posted and would love to buy you a drink.
>
> Thanks again and regards.
> "Rainald Taesler" wrote:
>
>> Spudee shared these words of wisdom:
>>
>>> … The photos I mentioned are small in
>>> dimension size, not sure about the file size.
>>
>> Believe me or not:
>> Several times tonight your problem did strike me :-)
>> Even when sitting at the bar down in the local village pub, I
>> thought about it ..
>> And I developed another idea for an approach.
>>
>>> I spent a bit of time
>>> last night (Aussie time) splitting the attachment up into 5
>>> seperate emails with attachments but these also failed. Very
>>> frustrating!!
>>
>> I believe You!
>>
>>> Anyway, the original attachment, without photos will have to do.
>>
>> No.
>> This would be just the wrong decision and it would mean just to
>> give up too soon!!
>>
>> As has been worked out in this thread, the whole thing in just "one
>> piece" is too big. For sure.
>>
>> So lets cut it into digestible pieces (several DOCs, several PDFs,
>> several ZIPs [BTW: Packing PDFs into a ZIP won't bring much
>> reduction in size).
>>
>> Apart from that, my idea simply is to saddle the horse form the
>> other end:
>> I assume that it's just the photos being too big. Most probably you
>> use rather big images and just reduced the size of their
>> *appearance* in Word.
>> Right?
>>
>> As you - *now* say (and what I was sure about before) - "the photos
>> are small in dimension size" (i.e. showing small in the source
>> [WinWord-Doc]) but " not sure about the file size", I am pretty sure
>> that just the *physical* size of the photos is the problem.
>>
>> My suggestion:
>> REDUCE the physical size of the images used and then embed them into
>> the source (WinWord-Doc) again.
>>
>> Should you not have something like "Photoshop", just use the really
>> fantastic all-purpose freeware tool IrfanView
>> www.irfanview.com
>>
>> Open all of the images (one by one) and reduce the size; adjust the
>> *physical* size to the size needed in the document and save them
>> (with a different name [in order to keep the originals untouched]).
>>
>> Then edit the WinWord document again and replace the current images
>> wit the reduced ones.
>>
>> Check the file-size of the resulting document.
>> Should it still be too big, cu it into pieces and then convert the
>> parts to PDFs or - if this preferred way is not viable - pack them
>> into ZIPs.
>>
>> HTH
>> If any further questions, pls ask them.
>>
>> Rainald

Ron Sommer shared these words of wisdom:

> Image Resizer will resize several selected photos.
> 1300 kb photo reduced to 55 kb.
> The reduced photos are saved with (small) added to the name.
>
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

Thanks for the pointer.
I had it on my old machine under XP.
But the XP-PowerToys do not install without a warning. So I did not
install any of them.

Did you install the tool under Vista?
Any problems?

Rainald

When viewing the pictures folder,
"You can resize images to some set sizes by selecting "EMail"."

Sorry, XP Image Resizer doesn't work in Vista.

I haven't tried this product:
http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/
--
Ronald Sommer

"Rainald Taesler" <taesler@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:%23hMY%23S41HHA.2752@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
: Ron Sommer shared these words of wisdom:
:
: > Image Resizer will resize several selected photos.
: > 1300 kb photo reduced to 55 kb.
: > The reduced photos are saved with (small) added to the name.
: >
: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx
:
: Thanks for the pointer.
: I had it on my old machine under XP.
: But the XP-PowerToys do not install without a warning. So I did not
: install any of them.
:
: Did you install the tool under Vista?
: Any problems?
:
: Rainald
:

Ron Sommer shared these words of wisdom:

>> But the XP-PowerToys do not install without a warning. So I did not
>> install any of them.
>> Did you install the tool under Vista?
>> Any problems?
>
> Sorry, XP Image Resizer doesn't work in Vista.

That's what I had assumed.
Thanks for the conformation.
Too bad that there (not yet?) any PowerToys for Vista. I'm seriously
missing TweakUI [siiiiigh].

> When viewing the pictures folder,
> "You can resize images to some set sizes by selecting "EMail"."

Interesting! Did not yet detect the features. Thanks for telling me!
It seems to be some workaround:
- select the files,
- click on "email" and have them attached to a new mail,
- save the mail,
- then save the files from there.

> I haven't tried this product:
> http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/

Thanks for the reference.
Will have a look.

BTW: The "Batch Conversion" tool in Irfanview is really powerful.
One can - besides many other options - resize the content of a whole
folder in just one run.

Rainald

Ron Sommer shared these words of wisdom:

> I haven't tried this product:
> http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/

Thanks again.
Installed it and will keep it. Really nice tool.
Easier and more intuitive than the batch-conversion of my beloved
Irfanview ;-) (not as many option,however).

Thanks once more

Rainald

"Rainald Taesler" <taesler@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:uqFFN0%231HHA.1124@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
: Ron Sommer shared these words of wisdom:
:
: > I haven't tried this product:
: > http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/
:
: Thanks again.
: Installed it and will keep it. Really nice tool.
: Easier and more intuitive than the batch-conversion of my beloved
: Irfanview ;-) (not as many option,however).
:
: Thanks once more
:
: Rainald
:
Thanks for the product report.
--
Ronald Sommer

Does McAfee not work well with Vista?? I am having big problems with sending
photos through windows mail. The computer I bought came with mcAfee (a Dell
computer) and I'm wondering - if there is a problem with McAfee and windows
mail, why does Dell sell or recommend McAffee with Vista??? Very annoying!

Ness

"Gary VanderMolen" wrote:

> The first thing you should do is uninstall McAfee since it is incompatible
> with Windows Mail. Then try sending again. If you get a new error message,
> copy it, then post it here.
>
> Gary VanderMolen
>
>
> "Spudee" <btate@dodo.com.au> wrote in message news:ADE5E713-3265-4A2B-B29C-A414A78480C7@microsoft.com...
> > G'day from 'down under',
> >
> > I have been attempting for 2 days now to send an extremely important email
> > with a 19 page attachment. The bulk of the attachment is Word 2007 text with
> > about a dozen small photos scattered throughout. However, my virus
> > programme, McAfee, tells me that the mesage is not able to be sent. I have
> > read a number of posts here and it seems that this sort of problem is either
> > with Windows Mail in Vista, McAfee, or my server!! Help please.
>
>
>

"nessie noodle" <nessienoodle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC554AB9-F4E1-4AF0-AFD2-EEB6E9BB4970@microsoft.com...
> Does McAfee not work well with Vista??

Not very well, it has been implicated in several problems.

> I am having big problems with sending
> photos through windows mail. The computer I bought came with mcAfee (a
> Dell
> computer) and I'm wondering - if there is a problem with McAfee and
> windows
> mail, why does Dell sell or recommend McAffee with Vista??? Very annoying!

Money. Dell are paid to include it.
McAfee, Norton and the others are practicing a form of loss leader marketing
where they give away a version of their product in the hope of getting very
profitable repeat business.

The problem occurs because McAfee thinks that a Worm is active when sending a large email attachment and blocks the sending after some time.
Solution: Goto to McAfee Virusscan Options, choose active shield, choose Advanced, unselect scriptstopper.
This should solve the issue.

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The problem occurs because McAfee thinks that a Worm is active when sending a large email attachment and blocks the sending after some time.
Solution: Goto to McAfee Virusscan Options, choose active shield, choose Advanced, unselect scriptstopper.
This should solve the issue.


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