georgehe01: Quick Email Attachments

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Quick Email Attachments

I use Yahoo mail and Firefox. I found that I was wasting lots of time navigating through my files to attached a document to an email, especially if I wanted to attach multiple documents that were stored in different folders. Normally, I send off a file after having just worked on it, so I decided to use Smart Folders and Saved Searches in the Select Files dialog box in Firefox.

Here are the steps:

In a New Mail message in Yahoo click the Attach button.
In the Select Files dialog, start typing a term in the search field and the Save button will appear in the dialog. For some reason, the Save button doesn�t appear when the dialog is opened.
Click the Plus button next to Save.
Select Last Modified in the first pop up and then Today in the second.
Click Save.
Name the Search. I call it 'Today.'
Now, the Today Smart Search will appear under Saved Searches in the Select Files dialog -- no need to type t ...