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RARiley

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Hi all, TIA for any help, I am tired of searching (this forum, user manual, etc..) for an answer and not finding any answer.

I have a file on my SD card (a .KML if file format makes any difference) that I want to email. The problem is when I do the "add attachment" when composing an email, all I get is the camera gallery. No file selection! I tried both the Gmail and my other e-accounts. Is it possible to add an existing file to an email on this phone (LG Optimus V :rolleyes: )

What am I doing wrong???

Rob
 
RARiley said:
Hi all, TIA for any help, I am tired of searching (this forum, user manual, etc..) for an answer and not finding any answer.

I have a file on my SD card (a .KML if file format makes any difference) that I want to email. The problem is when I do the "add attachment" when composing an email, all I get is the camera gallery. No file selection! I tried both the Gmail and my other e-accounts. Is it possible to add an existing file to an email on this phone (LG Optimus V :rolleyes: )

What am I doing wrong???

Rob
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How big is the file,can you long press on the file, is there an option list saying share.
 
lou61166 said:
How big is the file,can you long press on the file, is there an option list saying share.
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lou61166 The file is small. The issue is that I don't get a chance to select the file. The "add attachment" option only shows the gallery for the camera. Which is a great way to send a picture, but that is not what I want to send.

I can not get to a "file selection" screen. Is there a way to send an existing file via email off of the phone? Do I need to install some other app?
 
RARiley said:
lou61166 The file is small. The issue is that I don't get a chance to select the file. The "add attachment" option only shows the gallery for the camera. Which is a great way to send a picture, but that is not what I want to send.

I can not get to a "file selection" screen. Is there a way to send an existing file via email off of the phone? Do I need to install some other app?
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You will need to get a file management app from the market,where i have never used astro,it should allow you to email a file.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.metago.astro&feature=search_result
 
Thanks to both lou61166 and melim.

Just to be clear, what both of you are saying is; the option to add a file, from the SD card/phone memory, as an attachment to an email being composed is not included with the stock phone.
 
RARiley said:
Thanks to both lou61166 and melim.

Just to be clear, what both of you are saying is; the option to add a file, from the SD card/phone memory, as an attachment to an email being composed is not included with the stock phone.
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No,as far as i know by the stock phone, the only way to view files is to mount the phone as a drive to your pc,i do not know why they do not include a file manager viewer within the OS,but that is not a big deal,seeing there are plenty of apps to handle it.
 
^Right, I just checked to be sure, and when I'm composing an email and hit "attach" I get the gallery and Astro as options. Without Astro, gallery would be the only option as you stated in your original post.
 
Not harsh at all! I think it's pretty stupid not to be able to get to your SD card without an app or rooting, and it's pretty much the only thing I miss about my Blackberry! Glad you got it to work. :)
 
I use Adao File Manager, and while it does add itself as an option when I attach a file from the Email program, that doesn't seem to work well. But it does work to long-press inside Adao and choose "Send To" and then Email.
 
Thorsten said:
In the time it took you to write your message, you could have downloaded and installed three free file managers. Where exactly is the problem?

In fact, I much prefer having to find a file manager on my own to a pre-installed one I may not like but couldn't delete.
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Ack! Missed about my BB, not miss. Thought it was pretty clear from my other posts in this thread that I use Astro, which I like just fine, so there's no problem. :confused: I was fine with the pre-installed BB one, too. I'm not that picky, lol.

I take your point about about there not being a default file manager, but we'll have to agree to disagree, 'cause the absence of one still feels a little insulting to me, in a "you're too stupid not to mess up your phone" kind of way. We were all one of "them" at some point, ya know? I still am some days. :o
 
melim said:
the absence of one still feels a little insulting to me
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The ability of Americans to feel slighted by trivial non-issues continues to amaze me. (Watch Fox New much? ;))

Free file managers are not absent from Android phones. They simply don't come pre-installed. Do you feel insulted that fast food joints provide free ketchup without "pre-installing" it on your fries? Ketchup isn't absent from McDonald's just because customers have to "install" it on their own. :p

On a serious note: many modern computing environments try to move away from a folder-and-file-centric paradigms to ones based on activities and searches. In these environments, file managers become less important (if not obsolete for at least some non-power users) even on laptops and desktop computers! They are certainly not crucial for non-power phone users.
 
Frozen_Droid said:
I know that I have added a file to a text message before... Is there really no option to do so via email?
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Of course there is. You several options:

1. Send the file from the application that uses it. E.g., pictures and videos can be sent from the Gallery app. (If you have no app for the type of file you want to send, what is it doing on your phone in the first place?)

2. Get a file manager
 
Thorsten said:
The ability of Americans to feel slighted by trivial non-issues continues to amaze me. (Watch Fox New much? ;))

Free file managers are not absent from Android phones. They simply don't come pre-installed. Do you feel insulted that fast food joints provide free ketchup without "pre-installing" it on your fries? Ketchup isn't absent from McDonald's just because customers have to "install" it on their own. :p
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Wow, now I must be a wingnut fast food-eater who needs to be coddled, because I have an opinion on this particular subject that differs from yours. If you only knew how funny/wrong that is. FTR, I don't think it's personally insulting to me, in case that wasn't clear. Your "us" and "them" deal is insulting to a whole bunch of people who don't participate here for any number of reasons none of us could possibly know without making ASSumptions, though.

Here's my serious note- I don't come here to argue, and purposefully try to stay out of threads where an argument is taking place, so can we just stop this now?
 
Blanket claims about how pretty banal statements must be insulting to vaguely defined others strikes me as even more
 
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