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

[Greg Caulton]

Kimo, there's a Mail plug-in called Letter Opener that's been developed to resolve that specific problem.

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On Jan 14, 2010, at 11:56 AM, B. Kimo Lee wrote:

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> Hi Linda,
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> 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.
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> 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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>> At Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:35:00 -0500 Linda Taylor <lintaylor at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> > MIME-Version: 1.0
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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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>> > 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.
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>> > Linda Taylor
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