Technical Instructional Pages (TIPs)
for California State University Students, Staff and Faculty
Most Commonly Asked Technology Questions
Downloading a file from an E-mail
These instructions use Yahoo Mail, as an example but the instructions would be very similar for other types, such as Gmail, HotMail, etc.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. With the new email open, scroll down and look for the name of the file or its icon that is attached to the email.
2. Double-click either on the icon or the file name.
3. It will ask you if you want to Open or Save.
4. If you want to save, then navigate to the folder you want to save it to.
TIPs were created through a TIGERS (Technology Integration Grants for Educational Resource Sharing)
grant
from the California State University
Center for Distributed Learning (CDL).
Project Lead: Fred Fuld, CSU East Bay Concord Campus
Project Team Member: Marion Smith, CSU Dominguez Hills