Re: Is there a way to "connect" files?

kvandyke, <kvandyke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, the two-ply, melancholy hose bag, and
worker who dresses up dead parrots to make them look alive and wires them to
perches prior to sale, afforded:

> That's a logical solution, maybe, but it won't work in my situation.
> I'm deluged with these e-mails (press releases) at work and need to
> save them all for later reference. If I started pasting all of the
> images into the word docs I'd never get anything else done. I guess I
> was really asking if there's already a utility program out there that
> does this for Windows XP, not alternative solutions, unless there's
> already a way to do it in XP. (It was only after exhausting many other
> remedies like the one you suggested that I came to the conclusion that
> something like this would be useful.)
>
> philo wrote:
>> "kvandyke" <kvandyke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1122390144.212356.121820@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> I would love to be able to save attachments from, say, Outlook onto
>>> my hard drive (or a server folder) and be able to somehow indicate
>>> that those files are connected to each other.
>>>
>>> For example, when a Word document and an image file arrive together
>>> in my E-mail inbox as attachments, I save them into a folder that
>>> contains many other such files. When files accumulate in this
>>> folder, it's not always obvious that the files are connected to
>>> each other (they often have different file names, and of course
>>> they have different extensions). I'd like to be able to somehow
>>> "staple" or "paper clip" the two files together so that when I
>>> retrieve, say, the Word file I'll know that it's "connected" to the
>>> image it orginally came with.
>>>
>>> Subfolders aren't the answer, in my case. I need to have all of the
>>> individual files in front of me. I don't want to do this via
>>> Outlook, or with my Outlook calendar, etc. -- it would have to be
>>> done in Windows Explorer to be useful.
>>>
>>> Has anyone ever run across a utility that performs that function
>>> w/Windows XP (professional 5.1)? Or is there already a way to do it
>>> in Windows?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help; please pass this along if necessary.
>>

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