Thanks Marko - I gradually came to realize that. It seems like a minor privacy risk, but we take those many times every day.
Bill On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Marko Vukovic <[email protected]> wrote: > Bill, whichever way you put your image into an email, it is effectively > uploaded from your computer to Google's servers. The only difference > between the in-line (embedded) or attached image is the way it is displayed > on the recipient side. > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:31 PM, bill hansen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Andy - Thanks for your reply. By now you may have seen that a reboot of >> one of the two computers seems to have resolved the no-image problem on >> *both* computers. That's pretty strange, but I'll take it. >> >> I think I posted a screen shot of the "Upload" screen I now have to use. >> If you think it would help, I can post that again. Once or twice, as an >> upload of a photo or PDF began, a screen with the title something like >> "Your Drive Images" appeared for a fraction of a second. It contained >> thumbnails of a dozen or more images and PDFs, but it was too brief to make >> much out of it. I haven't seen it in the last few days. >> >> I would very much like to avoid uploading my images to Drive, because I >> don't trust Google's privacy claims. But maybe the alternative, for me, >> would be to stop embedding images in emails - and that would be an >> unacceptable alternative. Right now, I think I'm stuck with the current >> slightly clunky, semi-acceptable situation - but it works. >> >> Bill Hansen >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Andy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 8:01 AM, billhansen <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> ... >>>> I initially thought the upload went to Google Drive, but maybe not, >>>> since I don't have Drive installed). >>>> ... >>>> >>> >>> FYI - Drive doesn't get installed. Drive exists "in the cloud", on >>> Google's servers. >>> >>> I don't know what the "upload" is that you have been seeing, because I >>> don't have the odd new way of attaching photos that you seem to have to >>> use. I suppose it's possible that you have been uploading them into your >>> Google Drive account space. >>> >>> I have not seen your problem with opening embedded photos. >>> >>> Andy >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Gmail-Users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Gmail-Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Marko > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
