Howto download and save gmail attachments ¿?

[jordicm]

Hi all,

Well, the title says it all. In the gmail app or in the internet browser I cannot save attachments to the sd card.

Mainly the Galaxy tries to open it with the ThinkOffice app, but I only want to save the attach, be it .odt, .mp3, .epub, ...

Thanks in advance.

 

[Tinyk]

i have the same problem, every format, pdf, exl, etc shows preview only in the message and if I hit preview it comes up Fetching attachment, then 'An SD card is required to download attachments' i have a SD card in aswell as an internal one.

Nothing i seem to do will let me open an attachment, not only with the standard office viewer even with Docs to go installed it wont let me save or open them.

 

[alovell83]

Hi all,

Well, the title says it all. In the gmail app or in the internet browser I cannot save attachments to the sd card.

Mainly the Galaxy tries to open it with the ThinkOffice app, but I only want to save the attach, be it .odt, .mp3, .epub, ...

Thanks in advance.

My experience, on a quick test just now. Within the email app, the save feature is dependent on file type (I had two attachments, 1 being a pic and 1 being an excel file).

Picture: Options - download or preview (buttons right after the pic)
Excel file: Options -preview (button right after the pic). After getting put into ThinkFreeOffice (which you don't have to activate), you can click the menu button then click "File" to save to the SD card.

Hope that helps, at least the OP.

 

[Bajo76]

APKatcher

This should work.

Sorry, this only works for apk´s.

 

[eeney]

I've found using the gmail through the web browser allows me to save attachments, rather than trying to open them like the gmail app does.

 

[arshadaziz]

I would suggest you download and install the astro app and in preferences go and put a check mark against "enable browser download". This should enable you to save any kind of attachment via gmail app. Works very well for me.

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[Roy Ngan]

Hi all,

Well, the title says it all. In the gmail app or in the internet browser I cannot save attachments to the sd card.

Mainly the Galaxy tries to open it with the ThinkOffice app, but I only want to save the attach, be it .odt, .mp3, .epub, ...

Thanks in advance.

download from market "tAttachApkInstaller", should overcome your issue

 

[kcharng]

I just use browsers for attachments. it is much quicker.

 

[johnsxf]

download from market "tAttachApkInstaller", should overcome your issue

How do you do this... can you please explain. I need to download mostly pdf's word and excel docs for work... please help!

Thank you!!

 

[AllGamer]

just instal astro file manager