Strange Question, But Need to Know

[Brendi]

I created two images on my computer and emailed them to a friend. Since then, I have formatted my hard drive and my friend says that in doing so, the images I sent him by email either don't work or don't show up... is this possible? If so, how?

Brendi

[copirite]

no it is not, if you send him a copy it is just that a copy not a direct source

[WebJoel]

Why did you have to format your hard-drive? Was there a problem? That usually rather drastic measure to undertake.
If you had problems with the hard-drive, it might be possible that the images you sent were corrupt, or possibly contained a virus or something (unlikely). Assuming however that the recipient received and viewed the images at least once, then no, this is not possible. The images became orphaned upon being sent abroad.

[Brendi]

I didn't have to format my hard drive, but I decided to because so many strange things were going on with my computer. I checked for viruses, spyware and etc. but didn't find anything. I did use a program called CCleaner and wondered if off and on it deleted things that were necessary.

Anyway, about the email & missing images....when I checked MY sent folder in my email and opened the email I had sent my friend, the images were gone from there as well. I used a program called Trellian WebPage to create the images, but I would assume that whatever I created on my computer would have nothing to do with what is on my friends' computer, even if I didn't save the images after sending them to him. Any ideas?

Brendi

[Brendi]

I wonder if maybe I uploaded the images into a googlepage, copied & pasted them from there, sent them and afterwards deleted them from googlepages. Would that have made them disappear?

Brendi

[123ecart]

What you did to your hard drive shouldn't have caused your friend to not see the images. This was just a coincedence.

[aaron.martinas]

ignore what you think may have caused the problem. this is fairly futile since we can determine exactly what the culprit is.

have your friend look at the email again. it will of course have broken images. tell him to "view the source" of the email. this will show HTML information. look for the IMG tag that would have contained the images. then look at the HREF attribute. this will tell you where the image was loaded from. that URL's "invalideness" will be the reason for the broken image.

attched images (and perhaps embedded images as well?) do not break when their "source" file is manipulated. they are copies of their source file which are local to the email in which they were attached.

[EricG1793]

You're saying that you Emailed these two pictures to your friend, right?

Your friend got them, and could view them. You then reformatted your hard drive. Your friend claims that they can't see the pictures anymore.

This does sound strange.

How did you Email the pictures? With Outlook? That could mean bad news.

However, if you Emailed with a web-based Email program, like Gmail, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc., you may be in luck. Just look in the "Sent Mail" folder. An archive of the message you sent to your friend should be in there. Look for the subject of whatever the Email was titled. If you can find it, Re-send it to your friend.

[harrisjw]

what you did was email short cuts to the images in an html email rather than the images themselves. so when your friend could see them it was because he was looking right on your system and can't now because they no longer exist.

btw this relates to the way spam with images now verifies an email address is a working one, making it more valuable for further spam targetting.