Viewing Photographs...............

[askyourgran]

Can anyone explain what I need to be able to view some jpg photos that have been posted online. The attachments all have a red cross in the box so I'm unable to view them. I have foxit and adobe but nothing seems to open the attachments. Thanks

[wildwood]

The red cross usually means that the browser has not been able to find the image on the server's site. This may not be your browser's fault. Sometimes sites host their images on another (hosting) site to save space.

You sometimes get the red cross in emails, this often means that somewhere along the 'forwarding' the images have been removed - by a filter.

All jpg images should be able to be viewed with the basic viewers and browsers.

[askyourgran]

Thanks wildwood, I couldn't understand why. I can usually open and view pictures. Unfortunately these are pics of my husbands bowling success last weenend and he wants to see them. Other people have been telling him to look at them, but alas I'm not able to oblige on my laptop. Thanks.

[boxtops]

For some documents - especially .jpegs and scanned documents - I have to open Adobe from my desktop then open the documents in Adobe. If I don't do that, all I get is machine code.

[rhythmcrazy]

I find sometimes it helps to save those jpegs to your computer first. There should be a save link somewhere on the email page to save attachments. After saving, the photos should open.

[askyourgran]

Thanks for your replies, I can't get the attachments to open properly. I have Adobe programme and that usually does the job. These attachments aren't on e-mail but on a bowling forum. Today I tried to open them again and three of the photos appeared automatically, when I tried again only one appeared, since then nothing will open. MrAsk thinks I'm doing this on purpose and I'm fuming at the failure to get them.