Why does it take so long to download attachments?

Same question how to download attachments , clicking on Download does not work?

• the download take forever and in the end I cancel as no attachments are actually downloading. Picture shows papers from a globe going to a file and ths goes on and on. Is this quite common? Is there a firewall that is blocking the information from coming through?

• Answer:

  Yahoo is still having some problems at the moment. Suggested cures range from Update Adobe Flash Player and Javascript to clear IE7 cache, cookies, and browsing history. Different things seem to work for different people. It's causing attachments to not show, 999 errors where it won't let you do a particular action and some people cannot send receive delete or move mail. It's not just Vista either it's happening to some of us on XP. I have been advised to use this site to view my mail, www.mail2web.com if all else fails go back to classic mail via this link. http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/dc/optout?script=no click yes when asked do you want to opt out. Hope this helps.