Hi, Sending Pages documents via eMail will send it as a .pages document just fine. I tested a few minutes ago with a Pages document from my Gmail account to my work account and the document came through perfectly as a Pages document which opened properly. It should be no different for any regular documents.
Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 22, 2014, at 3:26 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > The MIME format used to encode email attachments has no structure for folders > so to attach a folder of files many email apps will zip them into a single > file and then send that as an attachment. That said, a Word doc usually is > one monolithic file so unless you somehow picked the containing folder rather > than the exported word doc the mail app shouldn't be applying zip to your > attachment. Now a pages document actually is a folder so if you somehow are > attaching a Pages doc and not the converted Word version that would explain > it. > > CB > > On 1/22/14 6:35 AM, 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. > > -- > ¯\_(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.
