Gmail strips images from email?

[billhansen]

Starting on Oct 9, my emails will show an embedded image once (the first time the email is opened) but after that only a small square shaped icon shows up, and the image cannot be opened. This happens when using IE, Chrome, or Firefox as browser. I have no filters, labs, or themes connected to Gmail. I do not have Google Drive installed on either of my computers.

Clarification - I frequently embed a photo when sending an email to family and/or friends. This has always worked easily until about 2-3 weeks ago (I've been away for a while) when the process of embedding became different, requiring a few more clicks and an "Upload" of the image (upload to where?? - I don't know. I initially thought the upload went to Google Drive, but maybe not, since I don't have Drive installed). That was okay, as long as Gmail didn't strip out the embedded image after the first time the email was opened. But now the images are gone after the first time I, or another recipient, open the email.

Anyone else having the same trouble? Any thoughts on cause or fix for this?

BIll Hansen

[Andy]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 8:01 AM, billhansen <billhan...@gmail.com> wrote:

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I initially thought the upload went to Google Drive, but maybe not, since I don't have Drive installed).

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FYI - ​Drive doesn't get installed.  Drive exists "in the cloud", on Google's servers.

I don't know what the "upload" is that you have been seeing, because I don't have the odd new way of attaching photos that you seem to have to use.  I suppose it's possible that you have been uploading them into your Google Drive account space.

I have not seen your problem with opening embedded photos.

Andy

[Marko Vukovic]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Andy <AI.e...@gmail.com> wrote:

FYI - ​Drive doesn't get installed.  Drive exists "in the cloud", on Google's servers.

​There is a local application with the same name that can be installed, thereby creating a folder on the user's computer where objects may be dragged into to sync with the cloud.

​See: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive​

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Marko

[Andy]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Marko Vukovic <marko....@gmail.com> wrote:

​There is a local application with the same name that can be installed, thereby creating a folder on the user's computer where objects may be dragged into to sync with the cloud.

​That's true; but one wouldn't "upload" to the local Drive folder.  The upload is taken care of, invisibly, when Drive syncs the two areas.  Even if you have never installed the local Drive application, then uploads to Drive go to the cloud area, which is always there simply by having a Google (i.e., Gmail) account.

Andy

[bill hansen]

Sorry for bringing this to the group. I shut down and reboot seem to have solved the problem. (Strange, because only one computer was shut down and rebooted, but that solved the problem on both of the home computers.)

BIll Hansen

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 8:01 AM, billhansen <billhan...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[bill hansen]

Andy - Thanks for your reply. By now you may have seen that a reboot of one of the two computers seems to have resolved the no-image problem on *both* computers. That's pretty strange, but I'll take it.

I think I posted a screen shot of the "Upload" screen I now have to use. If you think it would help, I can post that again. Once or twice, as an upload of a photo or PDF began, a screen with the title something like "Your Drive Images" appeared for a fraction of a second. It contained thumbnails of a dozen or more images and PDFs, but it was too brief to make much out of it. I haven't seen it in the last few days.

I would very much like to avoid uploading my images to Drive,  because I don't trust Google's privacy claims. But maybe the alternative, for me, would be to stop embedding images in emails - and that would be an unacceptable alternative. Right now, I think I'm stuck with the current slightly clunky, semi-acceptable situation - but it works.

Bill Hansen

[Marko Vukovic]

Bill, whichever way you put your image into an email, it is effectively uploaded from your computer to Google's servers. The only difference between the in-line (embedded) or attached image is the way it is displayed on the recipient side.

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Marko

[bill hansen]

 Thanks Marko - I gradually came to realize that. It seems like a minor privacy risk, but we take those many times every day.

Bill