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 
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