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Diego Baragiola's avatar
Diego Baragiola
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Dropbox Capture paste into Outlook message creates attachments instead of being inserted in the body

For the last couple weeks, my Dropbox Capture is pasting screenshots as attachments in Outlook emails, instead of being inserted inside the message body.

Does anybody know how to modify that behavior?...it was working fine before...

 

Many thanks,

Diego

  • Hi there!

     

    Youcef from the Capture team here.

    I just wanted to let you that this has been solved on the latest version of the app. Give it a try on dropbox.com/capture.

    Thank you very much!

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

    Hi Diego Baragiola, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

     

    Are you able to uninstall and reinstall the app to see if this resolves the behavior?

     

    Keep me updated with any progress!

    • Diego Baragiola's avatar
      Diego Baragiola
      Explorer | Level 4

      Hi Jay,

      Thanks for the hint.

      I have re-installed the capture app but it still behaves as before. If I use Windows capture the screenshot gets embedded in the body text, but with Dropbox capture it keeps on creating a *.png attachment.

       

  • Hi there!

     

    Youcef from the Capture team here.

    I just wanted to let you that this has been solved on the latest version of the app. Give it a try on dropbox.com/capture.

    Thank you very much!

    • JenneCl's avatar
      JenneCl
      New member | Level 2

      This problem is back, after the latest update pasting in outlook stopped working and Dropbox Capture is adding the image as attachment.

       

      Is there an update planned?

      • Karan Khanna's avatar
        Karan Khanna
        Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

        Hey JenneCl bdollarsine carleeao -- Karan from the Dropbox Capture team here. Apologies for the issue. We just pushed out a fix for this-- can you try again and see if the issue has been fixed?

         

         

  • Megan's avatar
    Megan
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

    Hi Diego Baragiola, how are you today?  

     

    Can you let me know the exact steps you follow when this happens? 

     

    Does that happen automatically, or do you see an option to change the file type? 

    • Diego Baragiola's avatar
      Diego Baragiola
      Explorer | Level 4

      Hi Megan,

      I do the following:

      - I create a new message in outlook

      - I select the Dropbox Capture icon and click on "Screenshot" 

      - I highlight a portion of the screen to capture

      - Then I either do CTRL+V to paste the image into the e-mail or select markup to add some squares/arrows and then go SAVE, and paste into outlook

      - what I get is an attachment to my message (called "Screenshot by Dropbox Capture.png"), instead of getting the image within the body.

       

      Hope this helps ðŸ˜€

      Kind regards

      • YoucefDropbox's avatar
        YoucefDropbox
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        Diego, Youcef from the Capture team. Super sorry about this bug. We are in the middle of fixing it. It should be fixed within the next app update!

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