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What a laugh ..! your all wonderful !! After what Helen put, I did wonder about the extra space which was dissapearing ... so I sent myself an empty e.mail 3kb then I sent one with a few icons or cute stuff ( ya know the stuff us girls put on ! ) 33kb ...so yes, I think I understand a little better now. Good point Judy, about changing e.mails to Y aaa hhhoooo ... I did contemplate changing to BT address but I just didn't get round to investigating far enough. I think I'm alot wiser now, except for one thing !! The only Binary I understand is in my Bread ! And thats Warburton's bread ... those who know will understand !! thanking you all for all the help and advice. Elaine :-)

There are 10 kinds of people in this world - those who understand binary and those who don't.

Further to the above... You may be wondering why 1024. and not 1000. Computers depend on switches that have only 2 states... On and off. The computer sees these as 0 and 1 and uses these two numbers (the binary system) to calculate everything it does. Because the binary code system has only 2 numbers, powers of 2 plays an important role. Numbers always have to be 2 to the power of something. They take 2 to the 10th power to get the number 1024. For those of us who are not very good at math, I'll spell it out for you. 2 is the 1st power 2 X 2 = 4 (the 2nd power) 2 X 4 = 8 (the 3rd power) 2 X 8 = 16 (the 4th power) 2 X 16 = 32 (the 5th power) 2 X 32 = 64 (the 6th power) 2 X 64 = 128 (the 7th power) 2 X 128 = 256 (the 8th power) 2 X 256 = 512 (the 9th power) 2 X 512 = 1024 (the 10th power) And that's how you get 1 KB.

Elaine.....you may want to try Y ahoo's free e-mail account that allows more storage space (4MB compared to H otmail's 2MB.) As for not being able to view images from some, are the ones you are unable to view have multiple attachments? If so, you need a program like WINZIP in order to open e-mails with multiple attachments. If you have WINZIP or a similar program already, you might want to check the spam settings on your e-mail account. Judy

O.K. Robin, thats the proper way of explaining what I was trying to say!

email transmission doesn't handle raw image files, so when you attach them to mail messages they have to be encoded to look like some sort of text. This typically expands every 3 bytes to 4 and makes the file a third bigger. Of course they're automatically decoded when you open the attachment, so the whole process is normally invisible

The attachments may amount to only 60% of your space but there is the e-mail itself with all the information that that stores (the address, return paths etc) I don't know much about computers but I have watched when I've forwarded attachments of a say 3kb size go way over that when sent. Hope that makes sense?

Thanks for the explanation Helen. So basically I was right in thinking that 1000 KBs or there abouts would be 1 MB. Still doesn't explain why 901.9 KBs = 60% of 2MB ... Ever get the feeling that something isn't right. Its this Hot Male of mine stealing space back from me !!! At least now I know ! Cheers Helen Appreciate the reply. Elaine :-)

Elaine From the Internet: Search Family Internet File Sizes Explained Bytes, Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes and Beyond File sizes can be very confusing. For instance - which is bigger? 1.2 MB or 1200 KB? They are basically the same size! Confused? There is no need to be! The standard measurement units that are used online and on your family's computer are gigabytes, megabytes, kilobytes and bytes. Largest Larger Large Basic Unit Gigabyte (GB) Megabyte (MB) Kilobyte (KB) Byte Exact Conversion 1,024 Byte = 1 Kilobyte (KB) 1,024 Kilobyte (KB) = 1 Megabyte (MB) 1,073,741,824 Bytes = 1 Gigabyte (GB) 1 Gigabyte (GB) = 1,024 Megabyte (MB) For more conversions use a calculator. Hope this helps:-) Helen

Hi, Anyone out there no how many KB's make a MB in PC terms please. My Inbox has a 2 MB storage capacity ..... I have just sent myself (via my daughter) 2 images .. one was 248.4 KB the other was 653.5 KB ... this amounted to 60% of my inbox being full. I'm not stupid when it comes to maths (A Level !) BUT I just done understand how a total of 901.9 KB's can amount to more than one MB. Am I to assume that ROUGHLY speaking 800 KB = 1MB ... why haven't the powers that be rounded it off at 1000 KB = 1MB or am I way off track !! Hope someone can explain this to me ... I seem to be able to receive images from some folks but not others, and I'm assuming its got something to do with the size of the image ?? yes ?? Elaine :-)