Attachments are not saved. Outlook Error - The file cannot be created. Attachment preview
Messages email messages containing attachments are marked with a paperclip icon in the message list.
Safety Note: Outlook supports many various types files, but potentially dangerous attachments (including bat, exe, VBS and JS files) that may contain viruses are blocked. Even with Outlook Attachment Protection, be careful when opening any attachment, especially if it is unknown or untrusted. If in doubt, confirm the authenticity of the attachment with the sender. Also update the antivirus program on your computer.
If you want to quickly view an attachment in a received message, you don't have to open it. You can view the attachment in the reading pane or in an open message. The attachment previewers included with 2007 Office edition are enabled by default.
Note: To preview an attachment created in a 2007 system release application Microsoft Office, this application must be installed on your computer. For example, to view a Word 2007 attachment, you must have Word 2007 installed on your computer. To view an Excel attachment, you need Excel.
Viewing attachments is supported for messages in HTML format and plain text, but not for messages in RTF format. Additionally, it is only available in received messages, not in created messages.
Preview investments
In the list of messages, select the message with the attachment you want to view.
Click the attachment in the reading pane. If there are multiple attachments, you may need to scroll horizontally to find the attachment you want.
Note: May not appear in preview latest changes file. To view the most complete and up-to-date content, please open the file. For example, you can double-click a DOCX attachment to open it in Microsoft Word.
To return to the message text, click the button Message.
More information For information about previewing PDF files in Outlook 2007, see Preview PDF attachments.
Enable or disable attachment previewers
The attachment previewers included with 2007 Office edition are enabled by default. If you don't want to use all or some of them, follow the steps below to disable them.
To turn off all attachment previewers, click Disable attachment viewing.
To disable a specific tool, click the button Document and attachment viewers, uncheck any previewers you want to disable, and click OK.
In Outlook in the menu Service click Trust Center and press the button Attachment processing.
Do one of the following:
To enable preview tools, click Disable attachment viewing or check the boxes for individual tools.
For more information, see File Previewers for Outlook.
Opening an attachment
You can open an attachment from the reading pane, from a message in a message list such as the Inbox, or from an open message.
In the Reading Pane, double-click the attachment. You can also click right click mouse over the message that contains the attachment and select View attachments.
Note: If you are prompted to open or save an attachment, it is recommended that you save the file and check it with antivirus program before opening.
Saving an attachment
Once you open and view the attachment, you can save it to your hard drive. If there are multiple attachments in a message, you can save them together or one at a time.
Save an individual attachment from a message
In an open or viewing message, right-click the attachment you want to save.
Select a folder to save and click the button Save.
Save all attachments from an open message
In an open message on a tab Message in the group Actions click Other actions and select Save attachments.
Click the button OK OK again.
Save all attachments from a message list
In the list of messages, select a message with an attachment.
On the menu File point to item Save attachments and select All attachments.
Click the button OK, select a folder to save and click the button OK again.
If you work quite intensively with attachments in the email Outlook program included in the kit Microsoft package Office, from time to time you may encounter the following error: "The file cannot be created. Right-click the folder where you want to create the file, and then select Properties and check your permissions for that folder." Arises this error at the very moment when the user, by double-clicking on the attachment icon in the body of the letter, tries to open this same attachment for further work. Window in similar message the error looks like this:
Diagnostics
In its email clients, Microsoft has provided the ability to open files attached to letters or in preview mode in the interface itself mail client Outlook, or using external applications associated with this file type. Obviously, the Outlook email client, like many other similar mail programs, to support the functionality described above, that is, working with attached files (opening, preview) must use a temporary directory to first save the required file and then transfer it external application. This temporary folder for working with attachments in the Outlook mail client is a specially named temporary folder located in the user profile, the path to which is specified in a specific registry parameter. This directory is created for working with temporary files automatically when creating an email account. account. Accordingly, the rights to this folder are set by default and access is granted to the current user. Based on the error that arose in our case, “The file cannot be created. Right-click the folder in which you are going to create the file, and then select the “Properties” command and check your permissions for this folder,” we can assume that there are some restrictions, most likely related to the number of files in the directory.
Based on this assumption, we have several ways to solve the problem:
- Clear storage directory temporary files(best option).
- Set a different directory for storing temporary files;
- Change restrictions file system on the number of files in the directory;
Solution
Let's focus on the method for cleaning the directory for storing temporary files. For this.
An Excel 2003 attachment file cannot be displayed due to a bug in the Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Preview tool, nor can it be saved or simply opened. Error messages are generated
Client OS: Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit, MS Office Professional Plus 2007 SP2. The attached file comes from the company's business partner in Excel format 2003.
1. When you try to open an attachment, Outlook reports:
The file xxxyyyzzz.xls cannot be created. Right-click the folder where you are going to create the file, then select Properties and check your permissions for that folder.
In this case, Excel opens, but the file does not.
The attachment cannot be saved. Unable to create file: xxxyyyzzz.xls. Right-click the folder where you are going to create the file, then select Properties and check your permissions for that folder.
Dragging an attached file from Outlook to the desktop also doesn't work
3. Excel's built-in previewer reports:
The file cannot be previewed due to an error in Excel Previewer.
If you open mailbox via Exchange OWA, then everything works fine.
Also, the attached Excel file opens without problems if you email it to a colleague.
More symptoms:
- Attached Excel files arrive in the employee's mailbox every day from the same company, but from different regions. Some senders ALWAYS open files, but some don't, with the problems mentioned above.
- if nested Excel files several, then the first file does not open, but the rest are OK
Solution:
The remedy is quite simple; all you need to do is have access rights to the system registry on your computer. First close the client (MS Outlook).
we walk along the tree:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\security
And delete the key: OutlookSecureTempFolder
! You can also delete the contents of the folder whose path is specified in this key over time or immediately to save disk space.
After which we can launch the client (MS Office Outlook) and enjoy how easily and effortlessly files are opened.