On or about 4/1/02 12:18 PM Tannis Baker eruditely mused the following: >I was visiting him yesterday and had only enough time for a cursory look >at his(extremely unorganized!) setup . I tried in vain to find where his >attachments were filed so that I could change their suffixes and try >opening them into his browser. I looked in the AOL folder and found a >downloads folder without downloads in it. Sherlock couldn't find anything >called attachments, downloads, survivor.mim or hi.mim. and nothing >obviously applicable came up under AOL. Unfortunately that was all the >time I had and will not be in hsi vicinity again soon. > >I would like to advise him, in an easily understood way, as to how he >might deal with unopenable attachments, but haven't the foggiest how this >AOL program works. Any advice?
On or about 4/1/02 1:48 PM Chris eruditely mused the following: >For your friend to open all the already messed up .mim attachments... >just drag the file to Stuffit Expander, it will almost always figure out >what it wrong, fix it, decode it, and give you the correct attachment. AOL really does a crap job with some attachments and it is a pain in the .. Two other pieces of advise on this issue: Usually AOL has a Downloads folder inside the AOL folder and that is set in the AOL preferences as the default location for downloaded files, BUT many times you will find the basic users as your friend will often have several copies of AOL scattered around their hard drive. At the first level, inside the Internet Application folder, inside the Internet folder. I have seen as many a six different copies and the I think it is the original preference location that was being used. Anyway the AOL preference file can be used to change the download location to the Desktop, but tell him what to do with the files otherwise the next time you visit there will be dozens of files on his Desktop. If Stuffit Expander does not do the trick you can always try "Decoder" a MIME decoding application that works well. A desktop alias of Decoder, Expander and Picture Viewer are helpful for such clients. Cheers Karl Webmaster for: IAS, Irish Airmail Society: http://members.aol.com/karlfranzw/AirmailSociety.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
