[Hidden-tech] Sending attachments from Mac to PC/and the other way 'round

Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions & Folktography tomadams at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 12:23:09 EST 2010


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..

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On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:56 AM, B. Kimo Lee <bklee at azurelink.com> wrote:

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> 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
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> On Jan 14, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Frank Aronson wrote:
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>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
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> 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.
>
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> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>wrote:
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>>    ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's
>> area.
>>   ** If you did, we all thank you.
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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
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>> > MIME-Version: 1.0
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