saving email attachments with Entourage

I am using Entourage 11.2.5 and it appears I can only save attachments
to a limited selection of folders. I click the "Save" button in the
attachment window and the "Where" popup has some random (?) selection
of folders but no provision for me to navigate to a folder of my
choice. I can't imagine a software package that does not allow the
user to choose the location to save a file. Hopefully someone will
tell me what I am doing wrong and not that this brain-dead limitation
is actually a feature of Entourage...

Diane
Wed Oct 11 19:04:00 CDT 2006

On 10/11/06 4:32 PM, in article
1160609558.557251.13070@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com, "Robing"
<robing@llnl.gov> wrote:

> I am using Entourage 11.2.5 and it appears I can only save attachments
> to a limited selection of folders. I click the "Save" button in the
> attachment window and the "Where" popup has some random (?) selection
> of folders but no provision for me to navigate to a folder of my
> choice. I can't imagine a software package that does not allow the
> user to choose the location to save a file. Hopefully someone will
> tell me what I am doing wrong and not that this brain-dead limitation
> is actually a feature of Entourage...

Try dragging the attachment to the folder you want.

Another option is to use a script. See

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/script/fav_scripts.html#favscript17>

<http://scriptbuilders.net/files/saveattachments20041.0.0.html>

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Hal
Wed Oct 11 19:24:48 CDT 2006

It sounds like you're using the abbreviated Save window. After click the
Save button in Entourage, a window appears. At the end of the line where you
see the name of your file, there's probably a triangle pointing up. Click on
the triangle once so that it points down. You should see the expanded Save
window and be able to navigate to any location on any volume.

Hal


On 10/11/06 6:32 PM, in article
1160609558.557251.13070@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com, "Robing"
<robing@llnl.gov> wrote:

> I am using Entourage 11.2.5 and it appears I can only save attachments
> to a limited selection of folders. I click the "Save" button in the
> attachment window and the "Where" popup has some random (?) selection
> of folders but no provision for me to navigate to a folder of my
> choice. I can't imagine a software package that does not allow the
> user to choose the location to save a file. Hopefully someone will
> tell me what I am doing wrong and not that this brain-dead limitation
> is actually a feature of Entourage...
>

Barry
Thu Oct 12 02:31:11 CDT 2006

On 12/10/06 00:32, in article
1160609558.557251.13070@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com, "Robing"
<robing@llnl.gov> wrote:

> I am using Entourage 11.2.5 and it appears I can only save attachments
> to a limited selection of folders. I click the "Save" button in the
> attachment window and the "Where" popup has some random (?) selection
> of folders but no provision for me to navigate to a folder of my
> choice. I can't imagine a software package that does not allow the
> user to choose the location to save a file. Hopefully someone will
> tell me what I am doing wrong and not that this brain-dead limitation
> is actually a feature of Entourage...
>

That's not the way it works for me - are you using any utilities that would
affect folder navigation - stuff like 'default folder' etc?

--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Check out the Entourage User's WebLog for hints, tips and troubleshooting
<http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/weblog/weblog.html>