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Help How can I save email attachments

I had this same issue, and this is what i came up with. If you log onto gmail or any other POP email account via your browser you can download the file no problem. Worked with .mp3 and .mp4 files just click on the file and save link
 
I have an Droid X . I do the following:
open the mail with an attachment (in this case a photo). I hold down on the shaded area to the right of the thumbnail for 2 seconds and a pop up opens and gives me the option to view, save or share. hope this helped.
 
Wow, thanks! That solves the problem! And my attachment was a PDF.

(I have an Droid X . I do the following: open the mail with an attachment (in this case a photo). I hold down on the shaded area to the right of the thumbnail for 2 seconds and a pop up opens and gives me the option to view, save or share. hope this helped.)
 
If you want to save mp3 file attachments, install the K9Mail app available in the android market. It is separate email program based on the android email program but has a few extra features, including the ability to save mp3 files. I use it as a secondary email program. You will need to set it up to use your email server. I haven't tried but it should work with gmail.
 
wexfordclanad said:
I have an Droid X . I do the following:
open the mail with an attachment (in this case a photo). I hold down on the shaded area to the right of the thumbnail for 2 seconds and a pop up opens and gives me the option to view, save or share. hope this helped.
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Are you doing this in the Gmail application? It doesn't work for me there or through the web. Where exactly are you holding?
 
I just downloaded the "Save my Attach" app from the market. It hooks into the "preview" button and lets you save the attachment. Works great.
 
Thanks for this. I have a Sprint Samsung Moment and downloading the Adobe Reader and "Save My attach" apps + emailing the PDFs to my gmail account works for me...
 
There is a way! It took me a minute to figure it out but I did...

Okay, I emailed myself pictures to my yahoo email account. When I opened it on the Droid it asked me if I wanted to view attachments. I hit the paperclip and it pulls up the image names. I hit each one and they started to download. When the download is complete, you can view the pictures in large size but can not do anything else with them. If you go back to the previous screen, they will be thumbnail size with the photo name to the right. Touch and hold the photo name and a box will pop up asking if you want to view, save or share. From there you can save to an SD card or share via email or text message. I tried to do both and was successful.

Hope this helps!

As far as MP3s.... no idea!
 
i have been trying to figure out this problem for someone else.

install Astro and you'll be able to download your files. tried it with an mp3 and i couldn't get it to save to sd, yet i can play it.
 
timj0 said:
I just downloaded the "Save my Attach" app from the market. It hooks into the "preview" button and lets you save the attachment. Works great.
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AHHHHH yes! Thank you for posting this information! I was just going nuts trying to save a picture to my phone to use as wallpaper. Something that was super simple with my ancient Blackberry tech.

How could they overlook this capability?
 
Baracudda said:
I found a pretty good attachment downloader (free and paid versions). It will download any kind of attachment to your SD card as long as there is a Preview or Open button available in the Gmail or Email app.

I don't understand why the default email apps do not let you download any kind of file, but at least there's another app out there that can help with it.

Search for "Blackmoon AttachSave" or visit the author's website and use the QR link.
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Blackmoon works for me, and has been working for me for the last 3+ months now.

ergosteur said:
I tried the previously mentioned app, but found "Attachment to SD" works better.
It really is surprising this isn't built in to the Gmail app.

Attachment to SD | AndroidApplications.com
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I found Blackmoon to work better for me, but YMMV - both do exactly as they they say they will.

jakeg3232 said:
You must open emails in mail not gmail. gmail doesn't let you save pdf files. open gmail account with mail app
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Using either of the above two mentioned applications, PDFs can be saved as ell - I've been doing it the entire previous semester as my professors would email PDFs and PPTs for classes.

And, yes, in GMail. I don't use the other email app at all.
 
raptorjrf said:
Sorry but I cannot find that option. I didn't see anything in account settings nor any options/choices while retrieving the email or the attachment - with all the clicking and holding I could think of.

I just want to be able to save some attachments as documents for reference.

Thanks - but I'm still baffled.
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Just hold your finger on the attachment for a few seconds in Texting or Email and it will pop open other options.
 
At first glance, this blackmoon app totally solves the problem until the gmail app (or actually it looks like some layer below) becomes smart enough to know that you'd like to save undefined things. This alleviates a huge burden for me, so if it works right for a couple of weeks I'm actually going to opt for the paid version. Warranted.

--jake
 
Hi all.
You can zip the file and then email it to the phone. Open G-Mail in browser and download to the phone. works for me
 
Actually, I am also surprised how come they do not have this functionality. I do not like installing apps for something I hardly use. My work around it is using "Email" instead of "Gmail". In my Eris, as well as Incredible right now, both of these apps are installed by default (even if you want, you can not un-install them). So, I set email up, but with no automatic update. I use "Gmail" most of the time, and use "Email" if I have to download an attachment.
Hope it was helpful. I will also like to know as soon as there is an update, that eliminates the need to use "Email" app.
 
it's pathetic that this functionality isn't available out of the box. The 'fix' of using a browser to log into your gmail isn't a solution at all, what's th epoint of using the g-mail app if you have to log in to a browser version every time you want to download an attachment? Doesn't make sense.

If they can do it with jpg, then they can do it with .pdf and other file formats.

I hope an update is out for this soon but as it's been going on for so long it doesn't look like it will happen. Shame because, other than this, I love my phone but will not get another android phone now because of this. Not fit for purpose as a smart phone if you can't download attachments in the mail app (regardless of 3rd party apps out there, shouldn't need to install additional applications for a feature which phones from nearly 10 years ago can do).

Needs sorting Google, my wife's just bought a Windows Phone 7 mobile and I'm impressed with that so far. Will be checking this functionality on her phone when I get home.
 
I will try this application. I downloaded that K9 app mentioned as well which does have a download button but the email client is not integrated in to other features. That's a seperate issue there.

What I'm reading here though are a lot of issues on saving pictures. When I receive pictures in gmail, there IS a download button. My issue is video files (wmv). When I send myself a video it does not have a download button which is completely rediculous. Download is download. They've pushed updates to gmail as recently as last night (3 Mar 11) and have not fixed this yet.

How can this simple fix be overlooked?

Eric

timj0 said:
I just downloaded the "Save my Attach" app from the market. It hooks into the "preview" button and lets you save the attachment. Works great.
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Hello People,

a quickfix way of saving your attachments:

1. open your email account in you browser
2. download the attachment to your phone
3. once downloaded, go to "my files" -> "download"
4. tap screen on particular download and hold down until you see menu
5. select "copy"/" move"
6. paste file at the intended location on your phone

Hope this was helpful

Cheerz!.
 
Place your finger sideways across the entire title of the attachment and/or the e-mail too. This will bring up all the attachments. Then place your finger sideways across the title of the attachment. This will bring up a menu that says, save attachment as:
followed by a long list of options. The first choice is audio. If you are trying to save music this will save it to your music area and it will be available as a ringtone, etc. You may then go to settings, sound, phone ringtone. Then hit new ringtone. This will bring you to music and you may select from the ringtones you have downloaded.
 
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