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Email is an enormously convenient communication tool, letting you quickly and easily keep in touch with anyone in the world as long that person has Internet access. Many emails messages only contain text, but many others include attachments that can let you access additional files. If you use Yahoo for your email account, you can open attachments easily, and Yahoo will even scan attachments for you to check for viruses or potential threats to your system. Unless you're opening a large attachment, you can usually access the attachment within a matter of seconds.

Attachments

An attachment to an email message is any file sent with the message outside of the body of the email, meaning the message's text and possibly graphics within it, like a background or image of a signature. The attached file could be a picture, movie, audio clip, PDF or any other type of file. Since the attachment isn't part of the message itself, you can't view or hear the file when you first open the message, even though you can view the message's text immediately. Depending on the attachment type and which program you use to check your email, you may be able to download and view the attachment within the program or you may need to download it and view it in another program.

Opening

To open an attachment in your account, you just need to open the message and then click on the attachment icon next to the email's message. The icon is a paperclip at the top of the message, and next to it is the number of attachments in the email. Yahoo will scan the attachments for viruses, and if the attachments appear trustworthy, a notification will appear that Yahoo found no viruses and you can click the 'Continue' button. A prompt will appear; depending on your Web browser, it will either ask you if you want to open the file or save it, or it will ask you where you want to save the file without the option to open it directly. If you do choose the option to open the file, it will download and display without saving permanently to your computer. If you download the file to your hard drive, you'll be able to choose the location for the download in a window that appears; after the download completes you can open the attachment by double-clicking the file.

Associated Programs

Even if you download an attachment, you may not be able to access it if you don't have the associated program for it. In most cases, such as when you receive pictures or text documents, this is a non-issue, since nearly all computers have native software that allow you to view these files. Some file types, like PDFs, Word documents and spreadsheet files, do require compatible programs that you might not have. PDFs are commonly used files, and you can open them with the free Adobe Reader program. You can open most productivity files, like presentation files and text files, with programs available in software suites like Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.

Warnings

Attachments can be entirely innoccuous or can cause serious damage to your computer, possibly even making identity theft possible from data on your PC. If you trust the sender of the message and if Yahoo reports that no viruses were found, then typically the attachment is safe, but you should never open or download an attachment from someone you don't know or one that Yahoo warns against. Even if Yahoo reports no viruses found in an attachment, viruses could possibly still be present. Ideally you should use an antivirus program on your computer to add protection against these types of threats. Several good antivirus programs include Webroot Secure Anywyhere, Norton AntiVirus, Bitdefender, Avast Free Antivirus, Avira Free Antivirus and AVG AntiVirus Free.

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Hello Heather,

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Hello Heather,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

It would be grateful if you can reply to this question in order to assist you further:

Which browser are you using to access your e-mail account?
Does the issue occurs with other e-mail accounts for example Outlook.com?
Are you using Mail app in Windows 10?
Does the issue occurs with all browsers?

Reply with the necessary information to help you troubleshoot the issue. I will be glad to assist you.

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I am unable to download attachments such as pps, pictures in Yahoo Mail no matter which browser I use (Internet explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox). It looks like there is something to do with the size (I guess so) because sometime it works.

I don't use the outlook.com mail. This doesn't happen with Windows 8.1 or Windows 7.

Can Microsoft fix that default? Or I have to restore Windows 8.1.

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Hello,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

We will be happy to guide you to the right direction.

As the issue seems to occur using all the browser we can conclude that the issue persists with Yahoo Mail itself. In this case we would suggest you to get in touch with the Yahoo support so that you can get better assistance on this issue.

For further assistance related to Windows feel free to post your queries in Microsoft forums. We will be glad to assist you.

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Hi,

I have got a similar problem opening attachment in yahoo email.

Especially for .pdf file, it always appears that 'We couldn't download one or more attachments. Please try again later.'

I'm using Mail app in Windows 10.

Please can you help.

Thanks,

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Hello Sikaris,

We regret to know that you are facing this issue.

Install all the pending Windows updates and check.

Further Try to remove the e-mail account from Mail app and then try to re-configure the e-mail account and check if it works.

Let us know the status of the issue. We will be happy to assist you further.

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Hello Sangeeta Sarkar,

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I have tried all your suggestions, but the problem still persists.

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I have upgraded a second time to Windows 10 to se if this kind of problem is resolved. I have downloaded all update components of Windows and installed them. It did improve in some ways but not all attachments can be downloaded.

Some large PPS, or MP4, or MP3, and pictures wouldn't work. I don't know why those attachment work perfectly well with Windows 8.1.

I have just backed out from Windows 10 today, and re-installed Windows 8.1 via the RESET function, because the Restore to Windows 8.1 did not do a proper job. It cause problem to my Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. Those browser were unable to load Google search page.

This is the last time I tried Windows 10. I have found it pretty hopeless or imperfect. It has other annoying issues in the Windows Explorer too.

My advice to other users is go back to the previous Windows version and never use Windows 10 again.