[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/18/04 2:29 AM: > Since it appears to be an Excel doc, I ran it through > MacLinkPlus which treated it as such, and opened it > successfully in Apple Works! CAn anybody guess at > what I may have done with emailer or maybe when I was > playing around in the control panel File Exchange, to > cause this?
There are a number of reasons that your Mac may think the incoming JPG file attachment is an Excel document. The file type and creator could have been damaged by the sender, or may have been damaged by your Mac upon receipt. It is not likely that Claris Emailer damaged the attachment. Claris Emailer simply receives and decodes what is sent to it. Since the bad file's name was " Oh yeah, here's how the file name showed up: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Maman_et_Philipp."Maman_et_Phillip", this makes me think that your friend damaged the file when it was sent out, not when it was received. You could try any and all of the following methods to fix this: 1) Run the file through Stuffit Expander first. I bet the file is still compressed and/or still encoded is binary text. An encoded file looks just like a text file. The Mac and also MacLinkPlus sometimes think that an encoded file is an Excel document. Since the file type and creator may have been lost when the file was sent to you, the Mac just sees garbled text. MacLinkPlus tries to translate it, but doesn't know what to do. You probably need to _decompress and decode_ the file, not translate it. 2) After you decompress and decode the file, try again. If it still looks wrong, then run the bad file through FileTyper. Get FileTyper. <http://dazuma.freeshell.org/filetyper/> Use FileTyper to change your bad file's creator and type to that of a known good file. MacLinkPlus permits you to do that, but MacLinkPlus might also be trying to translate the file. I don't think you need translation. FileTyper simply changes the type and creator, but does not change the file itself. 3) If you still have a problem, you can either: 3.1) Trash your prefs for File Exchange Control Panel and Internet Control Panel. Restart. See what happens then. 3.2) If you want to keep your prefs for those two Control Panels, then ... open File Exchange, and simply remove the suspect translation prefs from the two tabs in File Exchange. Save, close and restart. ... open from Internet Control Panel -> Advanced -> File Mapping tab. Remove the suspect mappings. Save, close and restart. Good luck! Roger+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Roger S. Cohen, President, Cohen International [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rogercohen.com Voice: +1 (845) 358-8936 Fax: +1 (845) 358-8937 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
