Attaching Zip Files

[BugOnPoint]

Outlook 2007 will not allow me to attach zip files to an email. Which
setting must be changes to allow this type of attachment?

Thanks

 

[F.H. Muffman]

Outlook 2007 will not allow me to attach zip files to an email.

Which setting must be changes to allow this type of attachment?

What exactly happens when you try and how are you trying?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

See http://www.msoutlook.info/question/25

 

[BugOnPoint]

I don't think that's it.

I open a new mail message, click the attach file button (paper clip), browse
to the directory where the zip file is located, click on the file (which I
can sse with its clamp on the file icon), click insert, and bingo, I'm back
to the email message with no attachment. So I can see them, but not attach
them.

Thanks for any more help you can offer

 

[BugOnPoint]

I open a new message, click the attach file icon (the paperclip), browse to
the directory, click on the zip file, click on insert and bingo, return to
the email message with no attachment.

 

[F.H. Muffman]

Outlook 2007 will not allow me to attach zip files to an email.

I open a new message, click the attach file icon (the paperclip),
browse to the directory, click on the zip file, click on insert and
bingo, return to the email message with no attachment.

And what happens if you drag and drop the attachment in? What happens if
you start Outlook in safe mode by exiting out and going to Start - Run -
outlook /safe and trying to attach a zip file?

 

[BugOnPoint]

I don't know, but all that thrash seems awfully contrived - "start in safe
mode"? I dunno, but if this is what it takes to make it work I'm thinking
apple and leopard are clearly in my future.

 

[F.H. Muffman]

Outlook 2007 will not allow me to attach zip files to an email.

I don't know, but all that thrash seems awfully contrived - "start in
safe mode"? I dunno, but if this is what it takes to make it work I'm
thinking apple and leopard are clearly in my future.

Use whatever you want, but, you see, this is called *troubleshooting*. There
isn't a button that just says 'Be able to attach zip files'. Something is
broken. Starting in safe mode is a step in trying to figure out why it doesn't
work. So, tell you what, you think you'll never have a software problem
in apple and leopard? Go use it. I don't really care.

Now, if you want to try to fix the problem, lets try to fix the problem.
Quit the whining and just try troubleshooting steps to, y'know, fix the
problem you posted about trying to get it fixed.

See, if it works in safe mode, that means it's likely a plug in that is causing
the problem, so you'd want to start disabling add-ins until you're able to
get it to work. If it still doesn't work in safe mode, then it likely isn't
an issue with one of the add-ins.

 

[Tim]

Even though the file does not display in the dialog box, you can still attach
the file. Just type the name of the zip file in the file name text box and
click on insert.

 

[Inglesina94]

Tim,

the zip files used to display in the dialog box ... now with 2007 no longer.
Is tehre a setting i need to change for the zip file to display again?

 

[Brian Tillman]

the zip files used to display in the dialog box ... now with 2007 no
longer. Is tehre a setting i need to change for the zip file to
display again?

Not an Outlook issue. Whether you see zip files in a browser dialogue
depends on a DLL registration in Windows. To allow Windows to treat zip
files as Compressed Folders (and not show them as files in the browser
dialogue), use the command line

regsvr32.exe zipfldr.dll

To allow a zip application to handle them and allow Windows to include them
in a browser dialogue as files, use the command

regsvr32.exe /u zipfldr.dll

This is well-documented all over the web.

 

[Inglesina94]

Brian,

thanks for your reply ... though I am still puzzled as when I browse into
the various locations using explore I can see the zip files OK.

The problem has started only last week when I upgraded from Office 2002 to
Office 2007 and I have made no other changes to the PC.

Not sure what I needs to do in relation to the DLL registration and the
command you provided. Is there a link I can follow with clear directions?