need "geek" help

[Rick V]

Ok I know almost nothing about my computer, hence my question.
I recieved an email with 2 pic attachments. They are in gif format (what ever that is) and when I try and open them all I get is some dotted lines. (they are even titled dotted lines)
What gives? is there something I am doing wrong or is the sender yanking my chain.
Any help would be welcomed.

[KFC911]

Dang, it's bad when you open a thread asking for "geek help" . Are the attachments something you don't mind if someone else views? If not, forward them to craverk-gmail.com (replace the "-" with an "@") and I'll take a look.

[imcarthur]

Often people send those cutesy emails with lines & moving figures etc intermingled with the text. If you set your email to text only (not html) that cutesy crap becomes gif attachments.

Ian

[Scott R]

Its probably just stationary from their particular email client. For instance in Exchange Or Notes you can set a default background for every email, and when someone outside of that particular client gets that email it just attaches it as a gif or jpeg.

[TerryH]

Photo gif's can be fairly large as the compression isn't there like jpg's. If the email is only a few kb, there is really nothing to see. Like others have said, probably html emoticons.

[TSNAPCRACKLEPOP]

this thread needs pix

[Rick V]

Originally Posted by TSNAPCRACKLEPOP

this thread needs pix

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[RWebb]

save them to files; then use a GIF viewer to open them

if you don't have one, download IRFANVIEW for free

[Rick V]

Thanks guys I will just have to believe I was sent a few dotted lines. I checked my settings and they will do HTML, I uploaded IRFANVIEW and came up with dotted lines, I sent it to anothe email acct and got.................yup dotted lines. So I recon, I was simply sent a few .....................................
Thanks for the suggestions.
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I had some extras so I thought I would share.