I have had several people say they could not open photos attached to my
Entourage emails, and that the number if files I sent were doubled. I would
send one file, and they would report two files. It seems an extra 50KB jpg
file was generated for each photo.
I once asked one of the people to send their little file back. As I
remember, it had the jpg filename of my photo, but the generic icon of a
text document. I opened it with a text processor and saw lines of code with
the word "Photoshop Elements". I had used Elements to reduce the file and
attach it to the email. Both people were using new Windows machines, so I
theorized that Elements had added a data fork to the file which confused
their machines.
I had been encoding Entourage attachments with AppleDouble ("For Any
Computer"). I don't know the significance of the word "double", but since my
recipients were seeing double, I changed the encoding to MIME/Base 64 ("For
Windows"), and re-sent the photos. The recipient then received one file
that opened automatically.
I was glad these people brought their problem to my attention, because I
think many others had just been confused and not said anything.
Allan Atherton
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