GMail and File Attachments

[Joe]

I use GMail to do my e-mail. It seems that there has been a recent change to it. It has a link or whatever to attach a file to the e-mail. But if you use it, the link then disappears. That is, the program seems to want to allow you to file attach only one file to the e-mail message. It did not use to do this, but allowed a number of files to be attached. Is there some secret to attaching multiple files to a Gmail message?

 

[Blobbenstein]

I just tried it....the icon changes a bit, but still works, to allow multiple attachments.

 

[ledboots]

I use GMail to do my e-mail. It seems that there has been a recent change to it. It has a link or whatever to attach a file to the e-mail. But if you use it, the link then disappears. That is, the program seems to want to allow you to file attach only one file to the e-mail message. It did not use to do this, but allowed a number of files to be attached. Is there some secret to attaching multiple files to a Gmail message?

Same, I would like to know the fix. I hate all the recent gmail changes.

 

[Blobbenstein]

I got an email from myself saying 'thought you might like this', and an old vv thread from last year link....is this the devil's work, or is it just Google being creepy?

 

[Blobbenstein]

any way, I didn't explain myself well...you click on the paperclip, and attach a file, and then the icon changes to a box with a paperclip, which still works for attaching files....does with me anyway.

 

[ledboots]

I got an email from myself saying 'thought you might like this', and an old vv thread from last year link....is this the devil's work, or is it just Google being creepy?

Your gmail might have been hacked

 

[Blobbenstein]

Your gmail might have been hacked

oh well I changed my password....hopefully just Google trying to suggest stuff....I don't need a stalker, as that was a VV link that was sent... :/

 

[Blobbenstein]

maybe it is someone trying to lamplight me....

edit: I mean gaslight..

 

[Moll Flanders]

I put hazard tape over my camera on my laptop after watching that episode of How to get away with murder. Creepy.

ETA Why You Should Put a Post-It Over Your Laptop Camera - Note to Self - WNYC

I got an email from myself saying 'thought you might like this', and an old vv thread from last year link....is this the devil's work, or is it just Google being creepy?

How weird!

 

[Joe]

Thank you everyone who took a crack at this. I'll have to try it several more times to verify (or falsify) what I thought was happening. Of course, I guess I could take all the would-be file attachments and put them in one .ZIP file and just attach that, but that would be kind of a pain in the butt.

 

[Joe]

I am bumping this thread because Google has changed the format of the GMail interface. Previously, my GMail interface had a few words printed in blue that said "Attach a file" or something like that. You would click on these words to get the file attachment function. But unfortunately for me, once I had attached one file, the file attachment function would no longer be available to attach additional files. (Yes, this is contrary to Blobbenstein's experience.)

Now that the interface has changed, it has an icon in the form of a paper clip attached to a sheet of paper. When I use this newly changed feature, I can just click it again to attach a second file, etc. So that problem has been solved.

The only thing I don't like about the new format is that in reply messages, it puts the quoted material in a kind of small rectangle with an ellipsis, and this is placed below your cursor. In other words, it encourages you to "top post." I was taught that top posting was wrong. I don't think Google should be encouraging this behavior.