[Hidden-tech] Sending attachments from Mac to PC

Frank Aronson fsaronson at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 09:27:24 EST 2010


This is a common problem.  What you may try doing is to Zip the file first
(I think in MacSpeak, this is either archive or compress when you right
click on the item you wish to Zip) and then sen the compressed file.  It
should come over as a Zip file attachment.

Frank
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
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>
>
> At Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:35:00 -0500 Linda Taylor <lintaylor at verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> >
> >    ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's
> area.
> >    ** If you did, we all thank you.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm on a Mac. Sometimes I send and attachment to a PC and they tell
> > me it only came as an image embedded in the email. I'm sure sometimes
> > the person just sees the image and doesn't bother trying to save the
> > attachment but it has also happened to some savvy PC owners. Anyone
> > know why this happens? I have "Save Window Friendly attachments"
> > turned on.
>
> Apple Mail seems to generally sent two attachments: one is the file and
> the other is an 'AppleMail' thingy (some kind of meta data thing).
> This *could* be confusing your PC correspondents. The AppleMail thingy
> is only meaningful on another Mac.
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Linda Taylor
> > Taylor Graphics
> > 413-628-3959
> > lintaylor at verizon.net
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> >
> >
> >
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
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