iPad Email Attachments showing up as empty/missing icon question mark

I am having the same problem. "Open in" is not showing for 1-page PDF files I have sent from my iPad.

Also, when opening a 1-page PDF in iBooks and sending it via mail, the recipient cannot open the file anymore. Somehow the preview does destroy the file.

I already tried out a full reset and it solved the problem for a short time. Suddenly the same happened again.

What is going wrong?

More than two years .. and the problem list and there was no answer .. Apple does not see this site

I finally solved the issue ... At least for my special case.

If you have an automated signature added to your emails, which includes bolt letters, then the one-page PDF files are massed up! Also the recipient will not have shown the open in tap in that case.

Try to remove the automated signature if you send your email. It is due to the settings of the sense only, not he recipient of the email.

If there is an icon in email message...Right click icon in email and open.

Worked here.

On my ipad (3rd Gen), if I press and hold any part of the inline PDF image, it gives me the options to "open in..." any one of several programs that view PDF images, such as Docs to Go, iBooks, etc. I can then view the full PDF vs a small, hard to read "preview" of it within the email itself.

I am having the same issue with received Excel spreadsheets on an iPad 3. The act of receving them on an iPad appears to have corrupted them. They don't appear in the forwarded email and if you try and send them via for example Dropbox or an attachment to a new email, the spreadsheets still are totally corrupted. Unfortunately I was in Africa, when I received them on my iPad and had set my mail to clear down from the server after 7 days, so I would not have a great mass of mail re-loading when I got back. I therefore cannot access the original on any of my Macs. Not a great feature for someone trying to use an iPad as a laptop replacement when travelling.

Wilson

ISSUE: email attachments FROM iPad TO outlook - attachments show up as red "X"

Yup, this worked for me too. Took some time trawling through the answers, though!

• one app in particular (but probably others i'm sure) was sending the email with 2 attachments.
• one attachment is the signature (a .txt file), and the other is the file i needed to send (the PDF)
• i had a fairly convoluted email signature set up with all of the usual corporate disclaimers and such.
• I set the signature to something that a .txt file would be more likely to handle i.e:

Regards

John Doe

no colours, bold, italic, or any other peculiar stuff

works ok now. will probably try to format the signature to plain text just to cover my *** in the event of a mass computer virus outbreak.

Hi,

I have just recently occurred a problem with receiving pdf's that are sent from goodreader (ipad) to outlook. This is only happening with 2 ipads, the other one I am able to receive pdf's from. When I send the pdf to both my outlook and my macmail, I only receive the pdf via macmail. Does anyone have any idea what caused this and what can be done to fix this?

Thanks!

i don't know about macmail, but a complicated email signature can mess up mailed PDF attachemnts to outlook. Try going nice and simple.

e.g.

regards

Zsus

To solve this, remove your signature used in mail for the account you are sending from. The PDF attachment will show up. I guess the client can not handle both.

Is anyone still having the original problem with attachments not forwarding? I can make this fail under iOS 6.1.4 with large (8mb) spreadsheets and PDFs at least 1 in 10 attempts. Was this ever addressed? I have no signature line.

I have the same issue with my iPad 2 64G wifi; PDF's appear in Microsoft outlook with a question mark. Removing my signature before sending does the trick but is a bit of an awkward step to remember.

However when I send a PDF from my iPod Touch 5G 64 or my iPhone 4S 64G, all works fine and my signature actually appears as an .htm attachment along with the PDF attachment when received in Microsoft Outlook. Whereas with the iPad, the signature remains within the body of the email.

Let's hope an update fixes this.

Many thanks.

This is the solution I've been looking for.

hi all, just thought id fill anyone in with some info I found - maybe it might help someone save a day of troubleshooting!

anyway we use BES10 for our iPhone management and we had this problem where email attachments were showing as a question mark and we werent able to open them in any other apps either. Turns out in BES10 there are 2 policy settings hidden away called "Limit personal data to personal apps and accounts" and "Limit work data to work apps and accounts." if these are enabled the ? appears on attachments and cant open them in other apps either. hopefully the above may be of use to someone.

Had issue of PDF Attachments not showing up in outlook. Got a box with a red x imbedded in the body instead. By shutting off the email signature I am now able to get the PDF file as an actual attachment. Very simple (if strange) fix! Thanks to all for your help. Don't know why Apple doesn't read these its been going on since 2010!!