Attaching files in emails on ipad

So if a friend of yours sends you an email like "Hi Samanta, please send me those pix from yesterday. Joe" you can just hit the "reply" button and attach files? Or you can't do it within a reply, and you have to

1. copy the email address you received the letter from, or check whether it is in your address book

2. go to the goodreader app (which sccording to an answer I got from Apple users can't go ouside its own sandbox boundaries)

3. select the files you want to send back to Joe

4. select "share via email" or anything like that, putting yourself in CC (or does the app keep a copy in the "sent items" folder?)

5. go back to the email app and continue working

Did I get it right?

And to do this you have to pay more money?

Sounds wonderful to me, yeah, you're right, take your cursing back

Am I the only one who considers that in 2011 having a thread (multiple ones, actually) about finding a reasonable way to attach files to an email sounds a little inconspicuous?

The simple fact that the matter has to be discussed looks pretty much unreal to me, let alone the "workarounds" that have been offered. I've been using email - and attachments - over the past 20 years or so, and attaching files - any file - has always been a simple and straightforward task.

Now, we have to rewind 20 years back and figure out a way to do things that were already settled in the past century... OMG

Bizar,... really, just... I dont get it. Why?

I think I found an app which is headed the right way, am going to try it first thing tomorrow:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/attachment-sender-group/id416481809?mt=8

its called A-Sender or Attachment Sender, hope it makes our lives a bit easier.

Although its still hard to grasp and explain... I was really shocked once I discovered this.

Hey,

I found myself here because this morning I replied to an email on my ipod (I am selling an old cell phone), typed it up, then went to attach the photos I just took (on my ipod 4th gen) of the old cell phone, and to my amazement could not get rid of the keyboard - which was covering up the email options - like the attach file button. In IOs 5 aren't we supposed to swipe the keyboard away? This didn't work. My only choice was to send that email without attachments (or delete it), then open my camera roll and send each picture INDIVIDUALLY via email. Maybe there is a way around this, but I don't care. Cut and Paste is a ridiculous argument - I have to do that on my Blackberry (in the contacts app when there is a duplicate) and we all know what's happening to them.I always brag to people that Apple products are so intuitive that anyoone can pick up and use them, but this is a massive flaw. I actually thought it was corrupt software on my Ipod and it needed to be restored, but I guess not.

In my family I have 3 apple tv 2's (these are great but no web browser - I'm not equipped for mirroring), 2 ipod touches, 2 ipod shuffles, 1 iphone 3gs(dead) and one Iphone 4 - I know my way around. This is my first real complaint with apple products and I'm at a loss. I was planning on upgrading to Iphone 4s from my BB Torch as soon as eligible, but I really need to put some thought into this. The nature of my business is I need to be able to attach documents, reply to emails with attachements, etc daily when I'm not in the office.

Please someone tell me I'm on crack - I'm doing something wrong?!?

For all those that say there is an app or workaround or cut and paste etc. this is clearly not the point. Steve Jobs said once everything should be done in three clicks. That's the point!

Wayne

Supposedly there is this app called ascender (thanks for the spell correct you apple @&$&$&) a sender but scrunched together, I heard about it on this forum in fact and its made for the iPhone but I haven't played with it too much but its a glorified notepad letting you still go through the steps of opening the app you want to "copy" an item from and gather all the copied stuff in one copy location then attach it. But you still have to go to photos for photos, a doc app for docs and etc, it still ******** and not intuitive and still not three clicks but hey jobs is dead apple soon will be too.

I think the point is not what SJ said or the number of clicks... thanks God, IT industry was not invented by SJ or anyone else in particular, but evolved as any other technology.

Email as been there long before the web started to appear, and the way an email client has to work has been estabilished looooong ago - not a formal standard, but has always been widely accepted the "write/reply - attach - send" process. It's so easy, straightforward and functional that even Microsoft, that in the beginning dreamed of inventing a different web, has never tried to change.

Now, way into the 2000s, i discovered that "the most advanced OS in the world" can't do simple tasks that where there BEFORE THE WEB appeared... that sound ridicolous.

My solution to this approach was even quicker than SJ one: sell the ****** iPad. One click. Period.

If and when Apple will come back to Earth (normal email support, file browsing, USB-storage and microSD support and so on), then maybe I'll be ready to pay an extra price for its design.

No more (poorly) reinventing the wheel, please.

You can use the 4 finger swipe across the screen to go between apps. There are other gestures you have available.

EDIT: Sorry , this was meant in reply to Albadran

Email is on it's way out anyway. The future is IM, Social networks and live connection to your friends/colleagues/family.

Five years from now... maybe. As of today, and for a few years to come, email is here to stay. Google-search a few hard-stats about "email sccounts" or "facebook messages". Not to mention that email can be sent in a far more secure way that IM and similar. Moreover, email system are fully interoperable (e.g. I can send email from gmail to hotmail or any corporate account), whereas IM messaging are limited whithin their framework (I'm not aware of a way to message between a FB and a MSN user - either of them has to register on and use the other person's system). Or am I wrong?

I get what you are saying - email is still here and will be for a few years but Apple is a not making products that fit in with what is happening now , they want to create the future.

How many tablets existied when the first iPAd came out...not many would my guess be. Now virtually all vendors have a tablet in their product line - most of them dare I say poor copies of the iPad. I work in IT and have held a lot of them in my hand and played with them but they are ALL not even close to the iPAD quality.

Check these out:

http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/6111873/An-end-to-emails-heres- the-way

however HOtmail is still very highty searched on Google in the UK

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8957020/Google-Zeitgeist-top-web-se arches-of-2011.html

What I'm buying today, I want to use it today, not years from now... when email will be extinct, or "deprecated" as we IT people use to say, maybe a poorly designed email client will suffice, but since email accounts are expected to grow steadily over the next few years, I don't think that iPad email fits into any realistic scenario. And if in 2015 email will be obsolete (but they won't), so will be the iPad 2 that I bought THIS YEAR...

I agree with the iPad quality, however I sold it when I realized that I could do more things with an android phone (phone, not tablet) than with the iPad 2 3G 64 Gb. I can detail further, but it's probably not appropriate here. Suffice to say that before selling the iIron I checked with both this forum and with one of the best Apple consultant here in Milan who acknowledged all my objections. What iPad does it does beautifully, the problem is that it does too little for business purposes, cannot be tailored (keyboard cannot be changed, for example, as far as I remember).

Now I use a Transformer and yes, quality is lesser and sometime it hangs (but I'm back up and running in 10 seconds), but it does EVERYTHING is expected from a tablet, including attaching files - and sending SMS. I never had to figure out "how to do things".

Coincidentally, I watched a documentary on Steve Jobs last night and when the first iPOD came out and Apple realized how successful it became they made a decision to become a consumer electronics company rather than staying focused on business which they had been in the early days, so yes you are right , Apple is moving away more and more from the business end of the market.

However , having said that, I believe that on the iPAD and even on the iPhone you can do any business you just have to change your workflow a bit.

What? I can not attach multiple images to my mail? OMG ...

I just had to install gmail app ... I also can not delete default mail application - it just have to be there ... 😟

One word...DROID!

I agree. Apple should have been provided all the basic features of email out-of-the-box. Email attachments are a standard thing for any email client, they must take care of it on iPad too. We shouldn't have to provide our "feedback" to get a basic functionality.