Attachments saved to Notes cannot be opened

Toast88 wrote:

I have several attachments I downloaded from my email and saved to notes due to running out of email storage and to organise them here for easy location later rather than storing in folders and losing them there. These included pdfs, xml and ppts. I'm pretty sure I checked that I could open them when I saved them at the time about 1 year ago but now that I have tried to open them again for every single file i get a similar message:

The file “XXXX.pdf” could not be opened.

It may be damaged or use a file format that Preview doesn’t recognise.

This issue is consistent across both my iPhone and MacBook

Any guidance on resolving this would be much appreciated, I saved these files as they were important and now I can not access them!

If moving out of Notes.app to something more practical does not resolve your issue — then it It sounds like damaged or file format not recognized as is...

Third party Graphic Converter can open many files types for example:

https://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/key-features/import-and-export-formats

ref: GraphicConverter