Travel Technology - Windows Live Hotmail - help with photo attatch

Greetings to the resident tech-Gurus....

My better half has an issue with her Hotmail account... it seems that a previously existing option that allowed her to quickly attatch photos to her emails is now gone from her hotmail menu... and instead of having hotmail automatically re-size the pictures, she is being forced to upload the photo files (JPG format) in their complete size, sometimes weighing up to 6MB per photo... this is not practical for her.

The previously available option that she is missing came up when she clicked the attatch button... the menu then automatically prompted her to choose between file or photo... she then would click photo and hotmail did the rest... this was quick and allowed her to send up to 8 or even 10 photos per email hassle free.....

Ive tried to wrestle with the Hotmail menus but cant find a fix.... can someone throw us a lifeline please..???

Thanks,
Gaucho100K

Greetings to the resident tech-Gurus....

My better half has an issue with her Hotmail account... it seems that a previously existing option that allowed her to quickly attatch photos to her emails is now gone from her hotmail menu... and instead of having hotmail automatically re-size the pictures, she is being forced to upload the photo files (JPG format) in their complete size, sometimes weighing up to 6MB per photo... this is not practical for her.

The previously available option that she is missing came up when she clicked the attatch button... the menu then automatically prompted her to choose between file or photo... she then would click photo and hotmail did the rest... this was quick and allowed her to send up to 8 or even 10 photos per email hassle free.....

Ive tried to wrestle with the Hotmail menus but cant find a fix.... can someone throw us a lifeline please..???

Thanks,
Gaucho100KDoes this address the issue you're seeing?

http://windowslivehelp.com/community/p/83681/337619.aspx

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Yes... Thanks, that should do it.

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Sorry, just one follow up... Any chance this help is available in Spanish...?

It's going to be quicker to just open and use a gmail account.

Sorry, just one follow up... Any chance this help is available in Spanish...?Well, I found the above website by simply Googling for "hotmail resize photo attachment" or maybe "hotmail resize photo attachments broken".

Maybe if you Google those, or similar terms in Spanish, you'll find a site that has Spanish results.

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Sorry, just one follow up... Any chance this help is available in Spanish...?

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwindowslivehelp.com%2Fcommunity%2Fp %2F83681%2F337619.aspx&sl=en&tl=es&history_state0=&swap=1

Machine translations suck, but there's a chance...

It's going to be quicker to just open and use a gmail account.

nope... migrating email accounts is always a large pain in the rear end.... :td:

Instead of trying to email large photos, how about a free FTP service like YouSendIt (http://www.yousendit.com/)?

It's going to be quicker to just open and use a gmail account.

But much more painful. I opened a gmail account just to see what all the fuss was about and I absolutely couldn't stand the user experience.

Just my opinion, of course.

But much more painful. I opened a gmail account just to see what all the fuss was about and I absolutely couldn't stand the user experience.


I hear this a lot... the UI does take a little getting used to...

But much more painful. I opened a gmail account just to see what all the fuss was about and I absolutely couldn't stand the user experience.

Just my opinion, of course.

+1

Well, I found the above website by simply Googling for "hotmail resize photo attachment" or maybe "hotmail resize photo attachments broken".

Maybe if you Google those, or similar terms in Spanish, you'll find a site that has Spanish results.Gaucho - did this work?

But much more painful. I opened a gmail account just to see what all the fuss was about and I absolutely couldn't stand the user experience.Both Hotmail and Gmail have their individual user experiences, but if you've spent more than a month using web-based email, it's a snap figuring out how each works.

The benefit of Gmail is that when you log into your email account, you see, surprise, your Inbox! (Hotmail shows you a page with their latest marketing blob, "What's new with your network", "Birthdays", "Headlines": A full page of just about everything they could find that's unrelated to your email.

Yahoo's got a respectable user experience as well...

BTW... Ive just looked into the details of the link kindly provided and it appears that the brains at MicroSoft have disabled the photo upload feature.... the link above shows a good number of posts by angry users that are cursing because this feature is no longer available.... MS support people are saying that they are "working" on a fix, but it does not seem to be a quick one....

Geez.... I cant believe MS would just disable a feature and not have an alternate and feasible solution to replace it.... apparently there is an alternate go-around tool that needs you to sign up for yet another MS "enhancement"..... what a way to piss off users... :mad: :mad:

apparently there is an alternate go-around tool that needs you to sign up for yet another MS "enhancement"..... what a way to piss off users... :mad: :mad:

The users that have commented on that thread seem to be confused about what Microsoft is recommending. The MS recommendation was to download and install Windows Live Mail, which is the desktop client for Hotmail. There's nothing else to sign up for and it's not an "enhancment", it's simply a desktop client that's been around for awhile. It's quite good, too.

Yeah... but from what I read the desktop client is not the solution o am I missing something..???

Yeah... but from what I read the desktop client is not the solution o am I missing something..???

The desktop client *IS* the solution that MS recommended in the thread being referred. At least temporarily until they fix the web client. Photo attach works great in the desktop client.

Again, nothing new to sign up for. Just install the desktop client and you have access to all of your email, contacts, and calendar in your existing hotmail account. I use the desktop client on all of my PC's and only use the web interface when I'm on someone else's PC or a kiosk.

My solution is to use the skydrive features, upload the photos to that into an album and send a link to the album. My guess is that it takes a lot less bandwidth at the MS server level. Give it a shot...not a bad alternative.

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Many tools listed here, while useful... are not for the IT challenged.

Why doesnt MS just bring back the friggen' feature...?!?!!

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