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Re: Outlook 365: message sizes not falling when attachments removed?

From	Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general
Subject	Re: Outlook 365: message sizes not falling when attachments removed?
Date	2020-07-20 07:45 -0700
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On 7/19/2020 8:16 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 11:07:56 -0700, Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On 7/19/2020 8:32 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
>>> On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 07:04:10, Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> wrote:
>>>>On 7/18/2020 8:19 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
>>>>> There's a column "Size" in the list of messages.
>>>>>  When I remove attachments from a message, the size shown does not 
>>>>>drop -
>>>>> even if the attachment was the bulk of the message. This seems to be
>>>>> true, even if I quit and restart Outlook, emptying the bin as I do so.
>>>>>  In other email clients I've used, the shown size _does_ drop when I
>>>>> remove attachments. So what gives?
>>>>>  1. Are the full emails - i. e. including the attachments - still 
>>>>>being
>>>>> kept somewhere? If so, how do you get at them?
>>>>> 2. If the answer to 1. is "yes they are but you can't", what's the point
>>>>> of the ability to "remove" attachments?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Exactly how are you removing the attachment?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Attachment appears as a rectangle above body of email (whether in
>>> preview pane or opened in separate window). I right-click on it, press v
>>> ("Remove attachment" has v underlined) or click remove, press space or
>>> click yes, and the rectangle disappears. The paperclip in the list of
>>> emails doesn't disappear nor does the size shown for the email drop,
>>> even if I go to another folder and back or close and restart Outlook,
>>> though the rectangle remains gone.
>>
>>
>>I'm using Outlook 2016. There's no such rectangle here. It must be a 
>>difference in the versions, so sorry, I can't try to see what happens here.
> 
> I'm also using Outlook 2016 and I see the rectangle he's talking about,
> assuming the email has one or more attachments. There's one for each
> attachment. It displays the default icon for that filetype, the name of the
> attachment, and its size. The rectangles are at the top of the email body,
> just below the To: line. Right clicking on that rectangle or pulling down
> on the little black arrow on the right edge of each rectangle gives you the
> same context menu, and Remove Attachment is one of the options.



Sorry, you're right, of course. Now I see it. It's a *icon*. He said 
"rectangle," so I was looking for the wrong thing. And I get the same 
result he does.

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  Re: Outlook 365: message sizes not falling when attachments removed? Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2020-07-19 07:04 -0700
    Re: Outlook 365: message sizes not falling when attachments removed? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2020-07-19 16:32 +0100
      Re: Outlook 365: message sizes not falling when attachments removed? Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2020-07-19 11:07 -0700
        Re: Outlook 365: message sizes not falling when attachments removed? Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2020-07-19 22:16 -0500
          Re: Outlook 365: message sizes not falling when attachments removed? Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2020-07-20 07:45 -0700
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