Forwarding email photos

[docpepper]

Just recently when forwarding an email the photo no longer attach. I'm sure I have a switch messed up somewhere but can't find it. Help anyone?

[kriegvision]

If you're forwarding an email you received that had attachments, you should be presented the choice of including or not including them after you tap the forward button.

[docpepper]

Yes I press include attachments but still not sent.

[kriegvision]

Hmm, might be some kind of bug. If that's the case, try copying the image first, create the new forward message, and paste it in. See if that works.

[docpepper]

Yes that works. Does this tell me where to look.

[kriegvision]

Does this happen with all attempts to forward emails with attachments, or only this one? There is a possibility the image file has some kind of corruption that causes iPhone to "forget" that it's supposed to be attached. I've had such things happen in other programs before, where a file that seems just fine is actually corrupted and isn't recognized or is recognized improperly.

Copying and Pasting is basically creating a new hidden image stored in memory from the picture data of the original. Doing this can stamp out any such corruption.

[Turboladdade]

I had this happen today actually. Tried dragging a PNG image from Safari to iChat. Instead of sending it as a picture as normally happens, it kept trying to send it as a file transfer. Opening the image in Preview and saving a new copy solved the problem. Perhaps the same sort of thing is going on here?

[Erico]

come to think of it sending and saving pictures are kind of similar.