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live.com and outlook.com refuse to show attachments

Posted on April 19, 2016 at 09:19 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

Interesting email from WC:

Lots of users having an issue with opening attachments on live.com andoutlook.com. See if you can find out what’s going on.

The only way to view the attachment is to forward it to another account.

I have a problem when opening an attached file from live.com. it says ‘Access Denied.’ When I forward and then open these emails in my gmail account – there is no issue with downloading the attachments. Today I have been unable to download or view attachments to emails. Things were working fine until now.

With Chrome, I am redirected to an ‘Access id denied’ page and on Edge I get a ‘HTTP 500 error. That’s odd… Microsoft Edge can’t find this page. ‘This page can’t be displayed, because this site’s server might be under maintenance or there could be a programming error.’

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/opeople-ocontacts/access-denied-when-opening-attachment-from-livecom/bd0fe08e-da78-46c0-ab85-eec87caea688

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail-osend/cannot-download-or-view-attachments-to-emails-in/d0b4b28c-e6fb-4f6a-834f-faa5d72d9573

Can anybody else confirm or – more importantly – figure out a fix?

Other live.com attachments, outlook.com attachments

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