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When you open attachments from the email message before saving to
the hard drive, Outlook places copies in the SecureTemp folder.
This folder is a hidden folder under Temporary Internet files.
Background: When you open attachments on email directly from
Outlook, a copy is written to a temporary folder on your hard drive
so your the virus scanner can check it before it is opened. The
folder Outlook writes this temp file to is under the Temporary
Internet Files folder where IE writes pages to when you surf the
internet. This offers more security as only your user account and
the computer administrator account can view the files under this
folder. The only way to avoid "losing" attachments in this well
hidden folder is to save them to your hard drive, before opening.
Few people do this (myself included).
These files are supposed to be deleted when you close the opened
attachment, however this only happens if the email message
the attachment arrived on remains open - this is either an opened
message in a new window or in the reading pane. When the message is
closed (or you wait to preview another message) after the attachment
is closed, the temporary file is deleted from the SecureTemp folder.
If you close the open message or display another Outlook item
in the reading pane but leave the attachment open, the temp file is
not deleted when you close the attachment.
When this folder gets "full" you may have problems opening email
attachments or embedded images won't display. If you open image
attachments in Windows Photo or Image viewer and click next, you may
see old images you thought you deleted. Delete the files in the
folder to fix.
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