Hi, Usually Mail only zips things when you attempt to send a folder of items instead of the individual items.
Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 22, 2014, at 4:56 AM, April Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > I have no idea why. They are even zipping 56 kb files. And I can't email > anything out from Pages or Numbers without exporting to another format first. > And like so many other things, Apple Support blames the email, not the Apple > files. > > On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 6:35:52 AM UTC-5, Jessica D wrote: > it is just one file. > why would apple mail zip files and not tell you? i have never seen this as an > issue before. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jan 21, 2014, at 11:34 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > If you have the file selected you can do a command-I to get info on the > > file and the Size field will tell you how big it is. In general 10MB and > > under should go through ok with most email providers. The internet > > standards for MIME encoded attachments have no size limits but that doesn't > > mean one service provider or another doesn't impose one. MIME also adds > > about a third again of overhead so emailing a 3MB file will take about 4MB > > of space, pushing you over the 10MB limit sooner. I know Outlook and some > > other email clients have options to automatically zip attachments but I was > > unaware of Apple Mail doing this. I have heard it will zip a folder. Are > > you attaching the actual file or a folder of files? > > > > CB > > > >> On 1/21/14 5:27 PM, Jessica D wrote: > >> i have no clue, how would i find out? > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >>> On Jan 21, 2014, at 5:24 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> How big are the files you are trying to send? Maybe something is trying > >>> to 'help' you along the way by zipping the files. > >>> > >>> CB > >>> > >>>> On 1/21/14 5:04 PM, Jess wrote: > >>>> Hello, > >>>> I am having extreme difficulty sending word and/or excel files to people > >>>> who have older versions of windows. It sends them as .zip files instead > >>>> of .xls, csv, or .doc. why could this be? > >>>> Jessica > >>>> I walk by faith, not by sight. > >>>> 2 Corinthians 5: 7 > >>> -- > >>> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > >>> > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >>> "MacVisionaries" group. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > >>> email to [email protected]. > >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "MacVisionaries" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
