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Martin Giblin
May 16, 2012, 10:20:00 PM5/16/12
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I get many pps attachments from people I trust but when I try to open them
within outlook express ift tell me no, fille association set file in folder
option in control panel. Well it is set right. If I save the pps attachment
to the desktop it will open ok. any thoughs?
TIA
within outlook express ift tell me no, fille association set file in folder
option in control panel. Well it is set right. If I save the pps attachment
to the desktop it will open ok. any thoughs?
TIA
VanguardLH
May 16, 2012, 10:32:43 PM5/16/12
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clue but to be sure I checked at:
http://filext.com/
So maybe you meant PowerPoint files. In what did you expect to open
PowerPoint documents?
If you don't have PowerPoint then you'll need to get something that can
view those document types, like maybe Microsoft's own PowerPoint viewer.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13
There are non-Microsoft (3rd party) viewers that can also display
PowerPoint documents, like OpenOffice.
Lynsey.Doyle
May 17, 2012, 3:32:39 AM5/17/12
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"VanguardLH" <V...@nguard.LH> a écrit dans le message de news:
jp1o00$h87$1...@news.albasani.net...
> Martin Giblin wrote:
>
>> I get many pps attachments from people I trust but when I try to open
>> them
>> within outlook express ift tell me no, fille association set file in
>> folder
>> option in control panel. Well it is set right. If I save the pps
>> attachment
>> to the desktop it will open ok. any thoughs?
>
> So we are to guess what "pps" document type you are getting. I have a
> clue but to be sure I checked at:
>
> http://filext.com/
>
> So maybe you meant PowerPoint files. In what did you expect to open
> PowerPoint documents?
>
> If you don't have PowerPoint then you'll need to get something that
> can
> view those document types, like maybe Microsoft's own PowerPoint
> viewer.
The message said he could read them if they were opened via the desktop
>
>> I get many pps attachments from people I trust but when I try to open
>> them
>> within outlook express ift tell me no, fille association set file in
>> folder
>> option in control panel. Well it is set right. If I save the pps
>> attachment
>> to the desktop it will open ok. any thoughs?
>
> So we are to guess what "pps" document type you are getting. I have a
> clue but to be sure I checked at:
>
> http://filext.com/
>
> So maybe you meant PowerPoint files. In what did you expect to open
> PowerPoint documents?
>
> If you don't have PowerPoint then you'll need to get something that
> can
> view those document types, like maybe Microsoft's own PowerPoint
> viewer.
therefore he has the necessary software.
kelly
May 17, 2012, 5:15:23 AM5/17/12
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Powerpoint.
Size:1904kb. Opening your PPS will call it up auto.
s|b
May 17, 2012, 8:04:08 AM5/17/12
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<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13>
Then install SP 1:
<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26620>
Then got to Windows Updates, check for updates, download and install.
It should work also with LibreOffice.
--
s|b
Unknown
May 17, 2012, 9:48:24 AM5/17/12
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On Wed, 16 May 2012 21:20:00 -0500, "Martin Giblin" <mg...@gvtc.com>
wrote:
Maybe the problem is outlook express. Try Foxmail or Thunderbird; I've
used Foxmail for years and never have any, and I mean any,
problems....
wrote:
used Foxmail for years and never have any, and I mean any,
problems....
VanguardLH
May 17, 2012, 11:15:28 AM5/17/12
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Lynsey.Doyle wrote:
> VanguardLH said ...
thought it was a question probably due to punctuation and spelling
errors. Looks like it was the same assumption made by "s|b".
If the extracted and saved .pps file opens okay (in the *unidentified*
viewer application) then my next suggestion would be for the OP to flush
his web browser's TIF (Temporary Internet Files) cache and retest. When
saving the file out of the e-mail, the encoded text from the MIME part
gets extracted and stored into a file. To load a document means it has
to exist somewhere. It is not read directly from the encoded text
string within a MIME part in an e-mail displayed within an e-mail
client. Viewing the attachment "inside" the e-mail is not looking
inside the e-mail at all. Instead the e-mail client must decode the
MIME part to store in a temporary *file* and that file gets passed to
the handler for the filetype. There is still a file involved. OE uses
the TIF cache for IE. If the TIF is full (at the max size configured in
IE) then no more files can be added. While IE handles deleting older
TIF files to make room for more, IE isn't the client when using OE.
Flushing the TIF cache will let OE have room to save its temp files for
when a user "opens" an attachment.
It's also possible the .pps files are not PowerPoint documents but
generated by something else, or even renamed from something else to .pps
(as is done to get e-mail clients to allow attachments of executable
files, like renaming <file>.exe to <file>.exx). The OP never mentioned
what application opened the .pps file okay when it was saved from the
e-mail in Outlook Express. If something other than PowerPoint [Viewer]
is used to open the saved file outside of OE then it's quite possible
that unidentified application never defined a filetype association in
the registry.
"Open ok" doesn't say HOW the saved file was opened. Could be the OP
loaded the unidentified application and then loaded the file, like
running the app and using its 'File -> Open' menu. The OP did *not* say
that he double-clicked on the saved file in Windows Explorer which would
use the filetype association to load the file using the designated
handler defined in the registry.
> VanguardLH said ...
>
>> Martin Giblin wrote:
>>
>>> I get many pps attachments from people I trust but when I try to
>>> open them within outlook express ift tell me no, fille association
>>> set file in folder option in control panel. Well it is set right.
>>> If I save the pps attachment to the desktop it will open ok. any
>>> thoughs?
>>
>> Martin Giblin wrote:
>>
>>> I get many pps attachments from people I trust but when I try to
>>> open them within outlook express ift tell me no, fille association
>>> set file in folder option in control panel. Well it is set right.
>>> If I save the pps attachment to the desktop it will open ok. any
>>> thoughs?
>>
>> In what did you expect to open PowerPoint documents? If you don't
>> have PowerPoint then you'll need to get something that can view
>> those document types, like maybe Microsoft's own PowerPoint viewer.
>
> The message said he could read them if they were opened via the desktop
> therefore he has the necessary software.
I may have read the OP's message incorrectly. In my glanced reading, I
>> have PowerPoint then you'll need to get something that can view
>> those document types, like maybe Microsoft's own PowerPoint viewer.
>
> The message said he could read them if they were opened via the desktop
> therefore he has the necessary software.
thought it was a question probably due to punctuation and spelling
errors. Looks like it was the same assumption made by "s|b".
If the extracted and saved .pps file opens okay (in the *unidentified*
viewer application) then my next suggestion would be for the OP to flush
his web browser's TIF (Temporary Internet Files) cache and retest. When
saving the file out of the e-mail, the encoded text from the MIME part
gets extracted and stored into a file. To load a document means it has
to exist somewhere. It is not read directly from the encoded text
string within a MIME part in an e-mail displayed within an e-mail
client. Viewing the attachment "inside" the e-mail is not looking
inside the e-mail at all. Instead the e-mail client must decode the
MIME part to store in a temporary *file* and that file gets passed to
the handler for the filetype. There is still a file involved. OE uses
the TIF cache for IE. If the TIF is full (at the max size configured in
IE) then no more files can be added. While IE handles deleting older
TIF files to make room for more, IE isn't the client when using OE.
Flushing the TIF cache will let OE have room to save its temp files for
when a user "opens" an attachment.
It's also possible the .pps files are not PowerPoint documents but
generated by something else, or even renamed from something else to .pps
(as is done to get e-mail clients to allow attachments of executable
files, like renaming <file>.exe to <file>.exx). The OP never mentioned
what application opened the .pps file okay when it was saved from the
e-mail in Outlook Express. If something other than PowerPoint [Viewer]
is used to open the saved file outside of OE then it's quite possible
that unidentified application never defined a filetype association in
the registry.
"Open ok" doesn't say HOW the saved file was opened. Could be the OP
loaded the unidentified application and then loaded the file, like
running the app and using its 'File -> Open' menu. The OP did *not* say
that he double-clicked on the saved file in Windows Explorer which would
use the filetype association to load the file using the designated
handler defined in the registry.
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