How to attach multiple docs in an email in lumia 920?

[Money Sharma]

i tried by going in office but it attach only one document in one mail. please tell a step by step solution to attach multiple files. :eck:

 

[hipporama]

As far as I know, currently there isn't a way to attach multiple documents to one email.

 

[Magnus Peders1]

There is an app called mail plus that allows you to attach multiple files. Should have been unnecessary to have a third party app to do it though..

 

[rockstarzzz]

Skydrive is integrated. Rest is self-explanatory.

 

[theefman]

Skydrive is integrated. Rest is self-explanatory.

Integrated Skydrive is irrelevant, there is no way to do what the OP wants using WP in its current state.

 

[gapost]

Mail Plus works good. It can attach multiple files, but yes, you would have thought it should have been a standard feature.

 

[rockstarzzz]

Integrated Skydrive is irrelevant, there is no way to do what the OP wants using WP in its current state.

Of course there is. Save all documents in a folder. Share that folder. Or share individual links.

WP does same thing as other old OS out there, just differently.

 

[gapost]

Of course there is. Save all documents in a folder. Share that folder. Or share individual links.

WP does same thing as other old OS out there, just differently.

Yeah, that's the "new way" of sharing. Emailing files is getting old-fashioned. Keep your docs in the cloud and just send links to share. That is the future. To be honest, my first though was email them, haha.

 

[theefman]

Of course there is. Save all documents in a folder. Share that folder. Or share individual links.

WP does same thing as other old OS out there, just differently.

I'm not sure why you think this is an acceptable method when every other mobile and desktop OS works the same way by being able to directly attach multiple files to an email. Your suggested method is inefficient and requires extra effort to setup beforehand and extra steps if you want to add or remove files after the fact. Also at my work and probably many others online storage like SkyDrive is blocked so those online files would not be accessible.
And people making excuses by claiming email attachments are now "old fashioned" are just deceiving themselves, this is a serious limitation that makes me wonder how anyone can recommend this OS for business use.

 

[rockstarzzz]

I'm not sure why you think this is an acceptable method when every other mobile and desktop OS works the same way by being able to directly attach multiple files to an email. Your suggested method is inefficient and requires extra effort to setup beforehand and extra steps if you want to add or remove files after the fact. Also at my work and probably many others online storage like SkyDrive is blocked so those online files would not be accessible.

And people making excuses by claiming email attachments are now "old fashioned" are just deceiving themselves, this is a serious limitation that makes me wonder how anyone can recommend this OS for business use.

Just because other platforms choose to stick to an outdated old method, does it mean we can't embrace a new and modern way of doing things? If that was true, we would still be using Windows Mobile and iPhone would have never existed.

I think this is boiling down to personal opinions really because I see sharing documents off the cloud is very modern and what 2020 should be all about. This way my work doesn't have to host my emails with huge attachments in Outlook - my inbox doesn't get chocked up with all those attachments I've been emailing other people so my account administrator doesn't email me every 2 weeks to clean up my inbox before I can receive more emails. All I share is link. That way even my mobile data usage is minimal. I think I've given this example before on this forum:

5 MB document. I upload once to Skydrive - 5 MB upload data used. Every other time, I just share the link with each email 2 KB per email? - I send 1000 emails with this link - 7 MB in total data used.

Same document I attach to 1000 emails and send off : 5 GB data used.

What is "old fashioned" in this scenario?

 

[gerzhwin]

Just because other platforms choose to stick to an outdated old method, does it mean we can't embrace a new and modern way of doing things? If that was true, we would still be using Windows Mobile and iPhone would have never existed.

I think this is boiling down to personal opinions really because I see sharing documents off the cloud is very modern and what 2020 should be all about. This way my work doesn't have to host my emails with huge attachments in Outlook - my inbox doesn't get chocked up with all those attachments I've been emailing other people so my account administrator doesn't email me every 2 weeks to clean up my inbox before I can receive more emails. All I share is link. That way even my mobile data usage is minimal. I think I've given this example before on this forum:

5 MB document. I upload once to Skydrive - 5 MB upload data used. Every other time, I just share the link with each email 2 KB per email? - I send 1000 emails with this link - 7 MB in total data used.

Same document I attach to 1000 emails and send off : 5 GB data used.

What is "old fashioned" in this scenario?

Attaching files is not outdated yet. It's still common behavior, so it should be an option.
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[mikewp]

Of course there is. Save all documents in a folder. Share that folder. Or share individual links.

WP does same thing as other old OS out there, just differently.

rockstarzzz, I'm trying to get my phone setup to operate in how you have described. I have Skydrive setup and I have the Skydrive app as well as Outlook email. So lets say I get two emails. 1 with an xls attachment and one with a pdf attachment. I want to save both of those files off to a shared skydrive folder called "test". Once saved, I want to send out a link to that shared folder. I want to do this all from the phone.

If this can be easily setup, I don't mind doing that... in fact, I like the solution. I just can't figure out how to do that.

thanks.

 

[Napocensis]

I strongly disagree than sending a link rather than attachments is the way to go. At least not in the current form and not for business purposes.

It would be literally impossible to create and POST MANAGE all these online folders. For legal purposes, I need to maintain the folder structure as long as I am in business, and even longer. I won?t be simply able to place new documents in a shared folder, as my former employee, now working for the competition still has a link to it. You would need to authenticate users, but not everyone wants to sign-up for a Microsoft Account. I am working on projects with online collaboration, but the data repository is not Skydrive, but rather custom service providers.

The only way I currently see this cloud storage and link solution working, is if your mail client or mail provider stripped off the attachments automatically and replaced them with a link in Skydrive. Also, WP and Skydrive (when accessed from WP) only accepts a handful of file types, so that will have to change. So no, in the current scenario it does not work.

Not to forget that local storage (in-house) is much much cheaper than online storage, and I am not thrilled being limited to Microsoft and their Skydrive service.

WP is great for entertainment but it?s just not ready for business yet. Keeping my fingers crossed for improvements.

 

[mikewp]

I strongly disagree than sending a link rather than attachments is the way to go. At least not in the current form and not for business purposes.

It would be literally impossible to create and POST MANAGE all these online folders. For legal purposes, I need to maintain the folder structure as long as I am in business, and even longer. I won’t be simply able to place new documents in a shared folder, as my former employee, now working for the competition still has a link to it. You would need to authenticate users, but not everyone wants to sign-up for a Microsoft Account. I am working on projects with online collaboration, but the data repository is not Skydrive, but rather custom service providers.

The only way I currently see this cloud storage and link solution working, is if your mail client or mail provider stripped off the attachments automatically and replaced them with a link in Skydrive. Also, WP and Skydrive (when accessed from WP) only accepts a handful of file types, so that will have to change. So no, in the current scenario it does not work.

Not to forget that local storage (in-house) is much much cheaper than online storage, and I am not thrilled being limited to Microsoft and their Skydrive service.

WP is great for entertainment but it’s just not ready for business yet. Keeping my fingers crossed for improvements.

You are right. I was hoping rockstarzz would step through my simple example. The answer is that it can't be done. You can't save PDF files on the phone or skydrive. I also don't see an easy way to save to a particular skydrive folder. *if* you could save any file to skydrive in any shared area, then I could deal with that workaround (or new methodology if that's what you want to call it). You can't even do that right now so it's safe to say that currently, WP is a mess for handling all attachments and file handling in general. Maybe they'll address this in 8.1. If MS wants to be taken seriously in the business world they need to get this worked out.

Edit: Never mind - I found a workaround that works pretty well explained below

 

[MF73]

PDFs are saved to your phone after opening them from email. Open PDF viewer and you will get a list of all downloaded PDFs. Granted its pretty crap how it works though. Email attachments and SkyDrive are a big problem for me to. Its completely illogical how it works.

 

[mikewp]

PDFs are saved to your phone after opening them from email. Open PDF viewer and you will get a list of all downloaded PDFs. Granted its pretty crap how it works though. Email attachments and SkyDrive are a big problem for me to. Its completely illogical how it works.

Thanks for that. OK so I have it figured out. Multi step process, but it works. For PDF files, you need the PDF reader. So download the file from email, then it will show up when you open the PDF reader. You can then share the file via Skydrive. If you do that, it will upload the file to the toplevel Skydrive. For xls doc,ppt files, you download the attachment, open it up, then save it to Skydrive. Again that puts it up at the toplevel Skydrive. Bring up the skydrive app, then, you create a shared folder. You then multi-select the files you just uploaded and move them to the shared folder. To create the link, hold down on the shared folder to bring up the menu so you can share the link via email or clipboard.

You can save xls, doc, ppt, pics, to your phone then use a different app to manage your cloud files. However, you can't with pdf file. You are stuck saving to Skydrive (which works for me). So... I guess I do have a workaround..or new way of doing things..need to work with it more to figure out the downsides.

 

[MF73]

Glad you found a workaround. It does not work that well for me. I'm in the graphics industry so my file extensions are different than Microsoft office ones and it wont let you download a file from email and save it if the phone cannot open it. Right pain! I should have the option to download and save and manage the file without having to open the file.

 

[mikewp]

You're right that is a pain. Even with an attached zip file.. you can open the zip but then you have to open each file to save it which doesn't help you any. It obviously doesn't make any sense and in a business setting with people on the go, maximum flexibility is a must. MS has got to understand this but just hasn't implemented it yet. *sigh*

 

[API_Rock]

anyone tried putting .doc file in pictures folder (in phone) ?

pls reply if this works,

 

[Richard Davis3]

The Microsoft Windows Phone Apollo Outlook Mobile email client is broken. Email attachments dont work and it needs to be fixed. Theres a Microsoft UserVoice request with 2000+ votes already and theres a FaceBook page (brand new).
Lets get this thing fixed otherwise WP is just a kids OS without any business application. And before someone mentions the cloud, I'm in finance and we are forbidden by law from storing files in overseas locations, so Skydrive is no use (plus its blocked in most corporate environments anyway).
Just fix it!