Decoding or Viewing an Attachment

    

The Basic Decode Commands
Decode (Control + D)
  View  (V)
The Decode and View commands will automatically fetch the article and decode it.

Decode an Attachment
Select the article in the thread pane, then do one of these:

·      right-click and select Decode, or

·      click the toolbar button to Decode, or

·      use the keyboard command Control + D
If the binary is a multi-part attachment, you only need to select one part and Gravity will automatically look for and combine the other parts. If it can not find all parts it marks the articles with an X and writes an error message in Image Factory. If you create one or more "Complete Binaries" filters, this is not an issue.
You can add more decode jobs to the queue. You can also select any number of articles and send them in one batch for decoding.
When you use the "Decode" command, the attachment is not displayed. The decoded attachments are placed in the directory set in Tools - Global Options - Decoding. You can view them with the "View" command, from the "Image Factory", or directly from disk.
Strange Tip: If you already fetched the article and you see the raw text, put the focus in the Article Pane and use one of the above commands. If you put focus in the Thread pane, Gravity will fetch the entire article again, ignoring the text in the article pane.

View an Attachment
Select the article in the thread pane, right-click, and select View. Or use the tool bar button.You do not need to decode the article first. If it has not been decoded, View will also fetch and decode it.
"View" lets you view the attachment when decoding is finished, unlike "Decode, which simply decodes the article to a directory. When you select View, the attachment will be displayed with the registry associated viewer for that file type, unless you configured another viewer.
If you previously decoded an attachment, you can view it anytime, if it has not been moved. You can also use the Image Factory to view attachments (and do much more).

Other Decoding Commands:

Manual decode    (Control + M) ( )

Priority view       (Control + Shift + V)

Decode to..    overrides the default decode directory. Accessed from the Article menu, or pop up menus
Priority View will move the article to the top of the decode queue and display the attachment.

More Information
Gravity will also decode articles if the article bodies are saved. You can get the bodies (tag then fetch) and then decode them (this low level approach is usually not necessary, but may help with flaky connections). This way is old fashioned, but was useful when all parts might take several days to come in or for off-line work.
You can also save the bodies as text files for decoding with an external application (but you should not have to do this).