If I have say 20 photographs saved as .jpgs, each of size 3MB, and I need to send them as attachments to an email, it can be useful to compress them each to say no more than a few hundred kB before sending. This may be done for individual files by means of the following procedure:
- select, right-click, then choose
Send to... | Mail recipient
, thenMedium: 1024 x 768
- click on
Attach
.
This makes Microsoft Outlook do its business, and you can then
- select a .jpg file in that program's
Compose: Emailing
window and click to open it, - choose
Save to Disk
, and then - save it where you want, and you will find that you are saving a compressed file
Note that this does not require using MS Outlook as your mail client, which practically nobody who has had experience with a proper mail client would wish to do.
My question is how can we amend the above procedure to compress several files at once. At the moment when I try to do this by selecting multiple files in the Compose: Emailing
window I can get all the way to saving, but the files are saved uncompressed.
I am using Windows 7 Pro with Service Pack 1.