Hi Allan, Lee will probably know the specifics but I read a long time ago either in a tech blurb on Microsoft's site, MacFixIt or MacOSXHints that the correct encoding to use for sending attachments from any cpu to any cpu is Windows (Base64/MIME).
Occasionally, I'll attach a file with a Mac-specific format that will generate an alert indicating that some information will be lost if I proceed. It's only on those occasions that I change the encoding to Macintosh (Binhex). Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 1041 Bardstown Road Louisville, KY 40204 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us http://www.mactown.us > 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 > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
