Some emailed attachments wont open

My Outlook 2011 which used to work fine has just started to corrupt pdf attachments. I use Preview.app as a default viewer. I have tried to open them in adobe but this dosen't work either. So It seems that certain types of pdfs are corrupted by 2011 Outlook. Does anyone have any ideas how to circumnavigate this so that I can go back to just clicking on the emailed attachment and having it open?

Hello Gete,
Re-starting the computer may help.
Cleaning the CD drive with a branded cleaner product
may also help.
( This will get some going I am sure.... )
Repairing permissions may also help.
Hard Drive > Applications > Utilities > Disk
Utilities.
" Repair permissions "
Let us know how you get on please?
Regards
Ian
Hi Ian,
Well, I've tried the repair permissions route - it didn't work.
As for a cleaning program, which I don't have anyway - my experience with apps other than Apple's own has not been good. I tried a shareware thing called maintenance, and let it do only the default cleaning - it probably did this OK, but the Mac seemed much slower in starting up afterwards...
It reminded me of all those awful years slaving away with a Windows PC every time I tried some new wonder tool; There's a lesson to be learned in there somewhere:-)
Thanks for replying,
Cheers, George
GeTe

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