# Attaching JPEGs to Gmail
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attaching-jpegs-to-gmail/430994
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [December 23, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attaching-jpegs-to-gmail/430994 "2007-12-23T03:33:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attaching-jpegs-to-gmail/430994/1 "2007-12-23T03:33:42Z")
Why must I always click on the Older Version link and use that before I can upload a JPEG photo file to Gmail? The Newer Version that comes up right away does not want to load my JPEGs; the Older Version always will. đ
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### Author:  [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2007, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attaching-jpegs-to-gmail/430994/2 "2007-12-23T05:30:44Z")
Mine works on both versions. AND on my Linux box and my Windows box. I have no idea what your problem is. What Os and what kind of connection and stuff and such.
Oh, FireFox on both machines for meâŚ
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2007, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attaching-jpegs-to-gmail/430994/3 "2007-12-23T05:56:46Z")
My WAG would be that youâre using Firefox and youâve used Adblock to remove the frame where the attachment box is.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2007, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attaching-jpegs-to-gmail/430994/4 "2007-12-23T08:09:38Z")
Iâve been using Windows for Gmail. However, Iâve been using Mozilla for Hotmail, because of a previously documented problem using Hotmail on Windows. I have not tried Gmail on Mozilla yet; I guess I should.
The attachment box is still there, though, on the Newer Version when I use Windows, but after a couple of hours waiting for the attachment to finish, Iâll give up, switch to the Older Version, and then the photo attaches fine quickly.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2007, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attaching-jpegs-to-gmail/430994/5 "2007-12-23T11:16:10Z")
Tried using Gmail in Mozilla, and itâs the same thing. Can attach photos only in the Older Version.
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### Author:  [@633squadron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/633squadron)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attaching-jpegs-to-gmail/430994/6 "2007-12-24T01:14:05Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam]
Why must I always click on the Older Version link and use that before I can upload a JPEG photo file to Gmail? The Newer Version that comes up right away does not want to load my JPEGs; the Older Version always will. đ
[/QUOTE]
I donât know why this is happening; it shouldnât. The other posts to the thread suggest that itâs dependent on your browser setup.
In any event, I have a suggestion: post your photos online somewhere rather than sending them through e-mail. Picasa is the logical choice, but there are a host of free online photo storage sites.
Why do this? Several reasons:
[ul]
[li]The photo doesnât go away if the recipient accidentally throws away the e-mail.[/li][li]If you send the same photo to many people, youâre eventually generating many copies of it. Inefficient.[/li][li]You have no guarantee that the photo will go through. The âanti-spamâ and âanti-virusâ stuff that ISPs do will often strip out an attachment.[/li][li]Some message boards/sites donât allow attachments.[/li][li]You give your recipient the choice of seeing the photo later on. Some of us just assume that everyone has broadband, and that is bad. If you send a link, your recipient can choose to view the image later or even download it as part of a batch.[/li][/ul]
This is a âWeb 2.0â idea. Donât send info, send links. Donât throw stuff at people, point them to the stuff. Make one copy, not hundreds. etc.
Just a thought.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attaching-jpegs-to-gmail/430994/7 "2007-12-24T02:17:38Z")
Thanks. May be time to try that.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attaching-jpegs-to-gmail/430994/8 "2007-12-25T03:18:40Z")
Actually, the wife has already signed up to one of those websites and has some photos up. But I must confess the photo I was sending was not one that I would want most people to see. No, not porno. Worse than that. I was sending a photo to an old roommate back in the 1970s, a photo of us, looking decidedly 1970s-ish. Thankfully, the Older Version of Gmail sent it. đ