I'm using the stock Email app and can't figure out a way to directly save email attachments to Dropbox.
Right now, to do this, I have to find the file in my Download folder and then save it to Dropbox.
Long press on the file icon doesn't do anything and doesn't seem to be any setting in email that allows this.
Thanks for any help
Unfortunately, I have the same issue, will spend some time today and see if there is a workaround for this... I'll let ya know...
Ok, so I did some checking and setup and downloaded Box.com's mobile app. Basically same principle as Dropbox but under Box's setting on phone there is a checkbox for "enable upload to box everywhere". Once I checked this box, i was able to open an attachment on 4 different e-mail accounts with stock e-mail app and upload straight to Box. If you're not stuck on Dropbox, give this a try. Mobile App = "Box", setup account at Box.net. Hope it helps...
EDIT: Downside is, Box.net doesn't offer a free sync app for windows/mac... You would have to be a paid user... So, guess I will be waiting for Dropbox to include the feature....
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Hi folks,
For some reason I can only attach pictures to Gmail emails. This is really annoying as I'd like to attach a pdf which I downloaded using the browser but it doesn't seem to give me that option?! There is a "downloads" section when I browse for an attachment, but it only shows images I've downloaded.
Does anyone know how to fix this..?
Thanks,
James
Just tried in Astro - scroll to the actual PDF on your SDCard and press and hold - bottom option is send, choose this and it gives you Via Gmail or Via HTC mail options.
Not actually sent anything but that looks like it should work...
Dayz xxx
I can see why you think you have a problem if you create a email & try to send it the only files you can see are picture files but if you follow Daisy's advice & use a file manager to select the pdf (or any other file type for that matter) it will work for you.
Good afternoon, I also have a problem with attachments and GMail. But actually the opposite of the above. I would like to save some mail attachments to my phone, but somehow this feature is missing. And ideas?
i have another problem with the gmail app. when i get a mail with , lets say, a picture attached, i am not able to download and store that picture, just to watch it (even if i click on "download").. is there any other possibility within the gmail app to do so?
Hi,
Does anyone know how to download attachments in Google mail directly to sd card?
In HTC Mail, you get the option of either opening an attachment or saving to sd card.
I am looking for something similar in Google mail to make it quicker to open the attachment the second time around.
Thanks
Samsom
Bump! Any ideas, anyone?
I think you have to open it and then save within the application you use to open it :/
Use Gmail from the web browser, instead of the GMail app - it will download to /sdcard/download.
Regards,
Dave
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I think you have to open it and then save within the application you use to open it :/
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Tried that. No option available in quick office.
Multi touch and save ability are two of the reasons I'm using the HTC mail program. I miss push from the gmail one but can live without it.
You can use Exchange sync with Gmail now, so there's no need to miss it!
Regards,
Dave
I did some searching and the only related threads I can see involve account & sign in issues which this is not. I'm not getting the error message telling me that I need to sign in. The problem I'm having is that when I attempt to upload an image to Picasa my albums are not listed where you would select an existing album to upload to. I also am unable to click the '+' symbol that allows you to create a new album to upload to. When I go into my Gallery to browse folders I can select Picasa from the drop down and all of my folders are there and my account is still sync'd in the accounts section of settings. So... it's seeing the account and the images already there no problem. The issue is with uploading specifically. I tried to un-sync and re-sync my Picasa account in settings as well as rebooting and various combinations and nothing seems to help. I'm running the stock ROM but the phone is rooted. I attempted to load the GB Gallery which is related but I don't think was the cause of this because I ran into it in the past on customer ROMs on other devices. I always just chalked it up to a bug in the ROM and never was able to solve it. Now that I'm on the stock ROM there really isn't much of an excuse for this.
Anyone have a fix or any advice for this? I use this a lot so I miss not having it when I just had it the other day.
Thanks for the help!
I've had this problem always with ICS. My main google account doesn't show the list of albums. Where my secondary one does show the coupld it has.. I have been unable to figure it out :/.
Why don't you just use auto upload in google+. It is basically doing what you want to do except it does it automatically. Auto upload creates a folder that only you can see in your picasa web albums, you can then either move the image to a public folder or just share the image via link. If you just want to share one picture you can do it via email or the google plus app as well.
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I don't want to keep all of the pictures l take though. More importantly I don't see option to move the pictures to albums from the google plus app.
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Why don't you just use auto upload in google+. It is basically doing what you want to do except it does it automatically. Auto upload creates a folder that only you can see in your picasa web albums, you can then either move the image to a public folder or just share the image via link. If you just want to share one picture you can do it via email or the google plus app as well.
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After further research it appears as though it's an Android bug. If you have another type of account sync'd it will confuse Picasa and you won't be able to see your folders or login/upload. For instance, say your Google account is the following email address:
[email protected]
and your DropBox account username is the same thing:
[email protected]
This will cause a conflict for some reason when it comes to Google being able to log you in and it will fail. For me I think it was my DropBox account which uses the same email as my Google account so it was causing issues. I tested this w/o having my DropBox account sync'd or even installed and w/o fail I can now access my Picasa folders and upload w/o issue.
Google needs to address this bug. That's all their is to it. This is a stupid error that shouldn't be too difficult to address and it's creating heartache for customers since most won't know why it's not working the way it just should be. It also seems that the last thing Google wants is people going back to their old email accounts for sign-in and notifications from various products. This is counter-productive for all their efforts to date.
FIX THIS GOOGLE!
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Why don't you just use auto upload in google+. It is basically doing what you want to do except it does it automatically. Auto upload creates a folder that only you can see in your picasa web albums, you can then either move the image to a public folder or just share the image via link. If you just want to share one picture you can do it via email or the google plus app as well.
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That's not really the point. Android shouldn't be denying login to DropBox so that I as the consumer can use whatever services available to me that I wish to use.
I agree it's silly to have that kind of error with the same email.
I just found an app PicasaTool that lets me upload to my picasa account correctly. So for now I guess I will use that.
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I agree it's silly to have that kind of error with the same email.
I just found an app PicasaTool that lets me upload to my picasa account correctly. So for now I guess I will use that.
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I'm just not comfortable giving 3rd parties my username and password so I will just change my Dropbox email and use the built in functionality with this as a workaround until such time that Google sees fit to address this bug.
Understandable. It doesn't ask for UN/PW by the way. It just uses the coin authentication thing.
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I'm just not comfortable giving 3rd parties my username and password so I will just change my Dropbox email and use the built in functionality with this as a workaround until such time that Google sees fit to address this bug.
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I use PhotoSync by Akira soumi.
Simple app that syncs at a time I specify (8am) so that my dcim folder on phone, dcim on tablet and picasa are all three synced everyday
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Several months further and on ICS (4.0.4) it wasn't fixed. JB is coming for my phone (SGSII) this month. Let's hope JB fixes this bug.
For now my solution is: changed the email of my dropbox and deleted facebook apps, doing everything on the mobile website now.
When I use the stock mail app, or k9, for my pop account I get the mail just fine. However when I download the mail on my desktop the mail on my phone disappears. I'd like it to stay on my phone. I have turned sync off for that account and leaving the mail on server is not an option. Is there a setting I am missing to tell it to retain a local copy on my phone or is this just not supported?
I feel a bit stupid not finding it ;-) anyone help out?
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Sounds like it might be your desktop mail application that is taking it off the server, not your phone. Have you changed your desktop mail app at all? I'd double check its settings, and make sure under the advanced, or account options on your desktop mail client, that don't delete from server, or the such is checked.
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Sounds like it might be your desktop mail application that is taking it off the server, not your phone. Have you changed your desktop mail app at all? I'd double check its settings, and make sure under the advanced, or account options on your desktop mail client, that don't delete from server, or the such is checked.
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My desktop app does indeed download it off the server. I wanted to see if there was a way to keep the copy on my phone even when this happens. I was hoping turning off sync would do this. I had this ability on the iphone, so just looking for something similar.
Hello I'm using a pop3 email for my work
My problem is that the default email app of samsung is not downloading the emails to the phone
For example I check my emails and recieve 3 of them lets say(they are still on the server)
Whenever some colleague check the emails from my office the email dissappear because they are download from the email server
Is there any way to make the samsung app to download a copy of the emails to the phone(like iphone)
I tried other apps like k9 mail app and they work just the same as I want...
But I didnt like the gui of it colors etc
Help appriciated
Mad_Wolf said:
Hello I'm using a pop3 email for my work
My problem is that the default email app of samsung is not downloading the emails to the phone
For example I check my emails and recieve 3 of them lets say(they are still on the server)
Whenever some colleague check the emails from my office the email dissappear because they are download from the email server
Is there any way to make the samsung app to download a copy of the emails to the phone(like iphone)
I tried other apps like k9 mail app and they work just the same as I want...
But I didnt like the gui of it colors etc
Help appriciated
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Use this app, it's only an addon so u can't open it directly but all your email attachment can now be downloaded
It's called "download all files" and is free on market
thanks m8 for you help
But I need to download the whole email so I can check or reply to it whenever I want
I dont want to download only the attachment