E-mailing photo best done as an attachment.(Chicago Tribune)

Byline: James Coates

Q. I received an e-mail that contained various pictures and images embedded into the e-mail, not as an attachment. I tried to copy the e-mail from the inbox folder to a disk, without luck. The text copied, but not the images.

All I saw was various empty boxes where the different images had been in. I looked in the attachments folder and Eudora itself (my e-mail program), and couldn't find any files with image extensions (.jpg, .gif, etc). Where are they hiding?

_Victor Abrams @smatrix.net

A. Your fix is easy, Mr. A., but my displeasure with the software writers who created this situation is substantial. Here's the fix: Hold the cursor arrow over the image in that e-mail document and give a right-click. This pops up a box that will let you save an extremely low-resolution version of the image wherever you please.

But the image will be of pathetic quality, …