How to disable Skydrive and photo album in WLM 2011

[Maxximus]

All i want is my ability to send pictures via windows explorer with the right click feature, then to resize them and then send them. Now when it gets ready to send it says some stuff about Skydrive, about some photo album and wants me to log in somewhere. I don't want any of that. I want the old tried and true method I had under plain jane Windows Mail before. How do I make WLM 2011 behave like the old WM? I just want to select, resize and send the way it used to work under WM!!!!!

 

[roncerr]

To send pictures the way WM or OE did it, don't use Photo Email. Remember "Photo Email" means you are NOT sending the photo by email. (Instead Photo Email sends the full resolution photo to Sky Drive with only a thumbnail link to it in the email.) To avoid that just "attach" the photo or "insert" the photo in line with the text in the message body.

 

[winsupertweaker]

I know you want a direct answer. You cannot "rigth click" and attach the emails to Widows Live Mail 2011. I strongly dislike not being able to do this as well. I don't like Skydrive, I don't like photo albums. Right clicking on one or using Ctrl and click to choose multiple images was a "piece of cake" when using Sendto.

Microsoft, please give us back the Right Click - Sendto - Mail Recipient and attach the emails without all the fuss with Skydrive and Photo Albums. Those features cause more hassles than they are worth.

 

[winsupertweaker]

Well. Time to bite the bullet gang. I have searched high and low and contacted Dev/s in PC with technet at M$. There will be no methods to disable Skydrive. Once you have a live or hotmail account, you automatically have a Skydrive account. All your photos will be attached and uploaded to the Skydrive account and your email recipients will have choices to view their email in slideshows and individually once it arrives in the in-boxes.

The only way to get a picture into the Windows Live Mail 2011 is to Insert it. Click "Insert" on the Menu-bar, choose your image and that's, that's. I am the first to buck at major changes when simplicity becomes "sophisticated" which is suppose to be "progress". :sarc:

Having said that. I will study all the features and upgrades to Windows Live Mail 2011 because I have a client base who will start pulling their hair out when they get the upgrade and find that they cannot restore (for whatever reason) or use a backup of the HDD to get back to WLM 2009/10.

Most of us were horrified with Vista, the UAC caused many people to bring their computers back to the store because it was not made public how to disable it until it was too late. Not to mention all the other glitches until SP1 and 2 were released. I eventually liked Vista and it brought me into a realm of troubleshooting that prepared me for Windows 7. Windows 7 is a piece of cake and now we who choose to use Windows Live Mail will have to get use to it's features or move onto another email client. Personally, I will stick with the M$ products for one major reason. I have my remote support service that I run from home and I "must stay on top" of new M$ Windows and other downloads from M$.

I bock and I bark and in the end.......I accept the technological advances. After all, 90% of the world uses Windows and I need to help my tiny percent of them every day.

So be it!

 

[susaw]

I too am very unhappy with this turn of events. I use to be able to resize my pictures in my Canon camera software, click on email in that program and send pictures to family that weren't so large they couldn't open them. Now when I try to use the camera software, the email opens and puts the pictures full sized into Sky Drive. I already put my pics on Flickr and am quite happy with that. I certainly don't need another place to put things.

One really ought to have the option to either opt out or disable Sky Drive

 

[roncerr]

... I certainly don't need another place to put things. One really ought to have the option to either opt out or disable Sky Drive.

Note that just because you have Skydrive doesn't mean you have to "put things" in it. You can still "insert" and "attach" photos as you did before and Skydrive won't be involved. The new problem with 2011 is the default action for the right click option is to use Skydrive. Skydrive is used whenever you choose "Photo Email" instead of "attach" or "insert".

I understand that if you have Windows Live Photo Gallery installed as well, you can use it's right-click option instead:

"(A.) Live Photo Gallery (one or more pictures)
1. Open Photo Gallery
2. Select picture(s)
- use the Control key to choose another folder in WLPG to view and select another folder's pictures
3. Click drop down arrow on the Photo Email option and choose the item 'Send photos as attachments'

(B.) Explorer (one picture)
1. Select a single picture
2. Rt Click and Choose Preview (opens WLPG viewer)
3. Click Photo Email down arrow and choose the option to 'Send photos as attachments'."

( //news.annexcafe.com/annexcafe.general.windowslivemail ; the post is called "Subject: WLM 2011 - Photo Email vs Attachments and then some...")

 

[susaw]

Sky Drive

The problem isn't being able to insert or attach photos, I know how to do that. The problem is that I take my pictures in large format so I can print them out later and have good resolution. But, I send some of them to family by email and want them to be reasonable size or lower resolution. I do this by using the software which came with my camera and is very easy to use. I used to be able to click once, have them resize, click on an email link in the software program and have them attached or inserted (whichever I wanted) into Windows Live Mail at the lower resolution, and then send them without having to save them at the lower resolution thereby creating two versions of my pictures.

Now with SkyDrive it appears that I will have to resize, save a lower resolution version of the picture along with the high resolution I already have and then go into Live Mail and attach or insert them.

It is just a nuisance that I don't want which takes more steps, more memory and I find it very annoying. What I'd like to do is be able to just send the pictures the way I've always sent them.

Susaw

 

[roncerr]

Actually it seems to me that Microsoft had your purpose in mind when they created Photo Email. More people are taking pictures that have fairly large file sizes but don't want to be bothered with software just to send people a copy of the picture. But if they simply send it, in full rez, it would clog up the mail, requiring long download times for each recipient. Also, many email servers limit the size of uploaded emails. So the idea of photo email is to automatically send a thumbnail image (or images) in the body of the email and put the full rez images on Skydrive. (Without the email file size limits.) Now the recipient gets to see many images quickly in the email and if he/she wants a better view of some they just click on them and download those images. You don't need to use software anymore at all. Just save the large images and use Photo Email to send them to others.

 

[car]

Send emails with photos from Windows Explorer

There is a way to send emails with photos From Windows Explorer on WLM 2011

Because Windows Explorer is forcing Photo mail in WLM 2011 you have to despite the program settings.

When selecting the images to send, include a non-image file. This could just be a dummy.txt file that should be in the same folder.

To create that non image file to the photo folder just Right click the window that has the photos and then New--> Text Document

Select your photos including the non-image file RIght click again pick Send to--> Mail recipient you'll still get the option to resize the images, but they'll end up attached rather than a photo mail. You can then Right click the dummy.txt file and REMOVE it from the message before sending.

 

[roncerr]

Send Emails with Photos

There is a way to send emails with photos From Windows Explorer on WLM 2011...

Very clever and welcome to the forum.

Here is another idea from the folks at the WLM newsgroup on the news.annexcafe.com server called annexcafe.general.windowslivemail:

In the message composition window, select a photo shown in the Photo e-mail to reveal the Photo Email Tools/Format and click the paperclip to change a photo e-mail to one with attachments.

I haven't tested this myself (still using the previous version of WLM). I'm also not sure if resizing is still possible.

 

[vanncyri]

Send photo

I use ACDsee and with the 2011 version of Live Mail, I've had the same problem.
I did as Roncerr said. Once on the message page, I click on one of the photo and the tab "Format" appears, then click the paperclip in "Album Styles" to change photo e-mail to one with attachments. You still change the size (not many choices but enough for me).
I've tried it and it work like the old one.
Pfewww, cheers Roncerr

 

[roncerr]

...I click on one of the photo and the tab "Format" appears, then click the paperclip in "Album Styles" to change photo e-mail to one with attachments. You still change the size...

Worth repeating and good to know you can still resize.

 

[roncerr]

Take a look at post #6 of this thread:
http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers...drive-photo-album-wlm-2011-a.html#post1055487

The portion of the above post (quoted from "...winston" at the annexcafe/Windows Live Mail Newsgroup on 11/2/10) that includes the phrase you mentioned is in the 2nd paragraph below but I think the first paragraph is for the right-click option while the second applies to adding photos to the email you are composing:

"...in the message composition window (Select a photo shown in the Photo e-mail to reveal the Photo Email Tools/Format), click the paperclip to change a photo e-mail to one with attachments...

Separately from using Explorer with the Right click options...since folks do wish to attach pics when composing new messages in WLM 2011 (when signed on to Windows Live with a Live ID)
- To avoid any 'convert to Photo e-mail interference'....uncheck the WLM 2011 option to 'Convert messages to Photo e-mails when adding photos' on the program's settings Compose tab(ALT F O M)..."

 

[crcjac]

Photos sent to Sky Drive appear blurry

Hi, why do the photos, that I send with Windows Live Mail, end up on Sky Drive looking blurry and out of focus and with a terrible resolution. Sky Drive ruins the appearance of the beautiful photos that I want to share. Is there a solution, or does Sky Drive stink as well as Windows Live Mail 2011?

 

[subyroo]

There is a way to send emails with photos From Windows Explorer on WLM 2011

Because Windows Explorer is forcing Photo mail in WLM 2011 you have to despite the program settings.

When selecting the images to send, include a non-image file. This could just be a dummy.txt file that should be in the same folder.

To create that non image file to the photo folder just Right click the window that has the photos and then New--> Text Document

Select your photos including the non-image file RIght click again pick Send to--> Mail recipient you'll still get the option to resize the images, but they'll end up attached rather than a photo mail. You can then Right click the dummy.txt file and REMOVE it from the message before sending.

Thank you "car", this problem has just about driven me insane.
I made myself a Dummy Text file to include and delete with WLM and it works perfectly just like OE did.

Makes you wonder why MS make something simple to do and use like in OE and then create a convoluted way of doing the same thing?

 

[waks770]

thanx 4 your solution car!

ms should supply an option as a solution, but yours is elegant & works. thanx again.

 

[rdemarco]

disabling skydrive - the solution!!!

I'm so proud of myself - I stumbled upon the solution!

Like everyone else, I was frustrated by not being able to easily send re-sized photos as attachments in e-mails, as opposed to skydrive

but i figured out how to do it, easily

Right-click on the selected photos as usual, select send to mail recipient and re-size as wanted
Once it comes up as a photo e-mail – here's the trick - hit view slideshow in the e-mail window
A Photo album tools tab will now appear. Hit the format tab. Click on the paper-click (attachment) icon, and they will now be switched to attachments, at their re-sized resolutions

2 or 3 simple clicks and you're done

Voila!

 

[subyroo]

I'm so proud of myself - I stumbled upon the solution!

Like everyone else, I was frustrated by not being able to easily send re-sized photos as attachments in e-mails, as opposed to skydrive

but i figured out how to do it, easily

Right-click on the selected photos as usual, select send to mail recipient and re-size as wanted
Once it comes up as a photo e-mail – here's the trick - hit view slideshow in the e-mail window
A Photo album tools tab will now appear. Hit the format tab. Click on the paper-click (attachment) icon, and they will now be switched to attachments, at their re-sized resolutions

2 or 3 simple clicks and you're done

Voila!

Nice detective work there rdemarco, now we have 2 ways of circumventing Skydrive.

 

[waks770]

rdemarco: doesn't work on my system, although obviously does for some. previous solution works on mine.

 

[truth is ias]

Sky drive has to go, it is not needed. What MS has done can account for only one thing. SPYING on pictures sent through the internet. If not we would be able to deactivate the program and have a choice. I tried for weeks to return to the standard way of sending emails with no luck. Finally I loaded live mail 2009 XP and I was happy again. Now within the last week MS change the code, put the change in a update, SKYDRIVE is back.... I have my own server and I don't want it or need it!

Looking for a new email client, MSN will not be my home page anymore, looking for a new IE.

Thanks Microsoft for screwing up a good thing you bunch of nitwits……….