Hello Jerome, >>I recently sent two photographs to a cousin as jpeg attachments. >> >>He tells me that four files actually arrived as follows >> >>P1.jpg (59.1 Kb) >>P1.jpg (159 Kb) >>P2.jpg (59.5 Kb) >>P2.jpg (129 Kb) >> >>P1.jpg (159 Kb) and P2.jpg (129 Kb) are the photographs I sent and will open. > >If you chose "AppleDouble" as attachment encoding, and your cousin is not >using a mac, then it is normal: the resource fork and other mac-only file >informations are sent in a separate file; if the recipient is using a >mac, both attachments are merged to reconstitute a full Mac OS file. You >can use the "smart" encoding to automatically use the AppleDouble >encoding for macintosh files that require it, and use base64 for any >other attachments.
I did wonder if the extra files might be resource forks. As you suspected, I have always use AppleDouble for everything and it is interesting that no other PC user I sent photos to has mentioned this to me. Perhaps they just didn't bother to tell me 8^) Thanks to you and to Chris for your responses. Regards, Frank -- Frank Mitchell, Scottsdale, Arizona
