Kimo, actually in OS 10.4+ you can right click on a bunch of files that have been selected and choose "compress items" and you'll get your zipped file (called "archive.zip" by default) works like a charm.. Regards, Tom Adams ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ • Director/Editor/Videographer • www.ReelifeProductions.com • Folktography by Tom- Quality Photography Prints & Products • www.FolktographybyTom.com • Professional Portal- links to other stuff I do or did • web.me.com/ReelifeProductions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ www.twitter.com/Reelife_Tom www.facebook.com/tomadams4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (413) 575-9707 Williamsburg, MA On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:56 AM, B. Kimo Lee <bklee at azurelink.com> wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > Hi Linda, > > Frank's right. I can confirm that I've used this method to overcome the > file attachment problem you described. > I use ZipIt which is a $20 shareware program <www.maczipit.com>. Works > great. > > Now if someone can help me figure out what to do about the windows.dat > problem I've run into the over way around, attachments from PCs to Macs that > come in as garbage. It only happens with one client so I haven't been > willing to spend the time to look into it, so if someone already knows what > to do and how to resolve it, please indulge me. > > Thanks, > Kimo > > > AZURELINK :: "Simply Connected!" > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Web Site Design & Scalable, Managed Web Hosting > Joomla! 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It > should come over as a Zip file attachment. > > Frank > -- > The Computer Mensch > "When not just ANY geek will do!" > Work: (413) 282-8855 > Cell: (413) 537-5238 > fsaronson at comcast.net > > 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. >> ** If you did, we all thank you. >> >> >> 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 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > MIME-Version: 1.0 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net >> > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net >> > >> > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion >> list. >> > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members >> > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. >> > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members >> > >> > >> >> -- >> Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 >> Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System >> http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows >> heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net >> Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net >> >> You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. >> If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members >> page on the Hidden Tech Web site. >> http://www.hidden-tech.net/members >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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