Need advice for a Mac user on emailing photos to Windows users

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I use Windows XP and just received a photo from a Mac-using friend. It
showed up in my Eudora as "$BDEGH(Bjpeg". I was able to open it only by
making the right choice from a long list of programs offered by Windows XP,
Irfanview, which opened the photo. I was then able to save it as a .jpg .

But other, more newbie-ish recipients will be stymied. Is there some advice
I can give my Mac-using friend on how to email photos in a Windows-friendly
way? Would she be able to assign, say, a .jpg extension to a photo before
emailing it?

Thanks,

Jack Crane
 
Yes, they can assign an extension. This is the whole resource/data fox thing
that Mac's have. Data fork for the data, resource fork for think like which
kind of file it is (and the associated app/icon). And they probably should
too.

I use Windows XP and just received a photo from a Mac-using friend. It
showed up in my Eudora as "$BDEGH(Bjpeg". I was able to open it only by
making the right choice from a long list of programs offered by Windows XP,
Irfanview, which opened the photo. I was then able to save it as a .jpg .

But other, more newbie-ish recipients will be stymied. Is there some advice
I can give my Mac-using friend on how to email photos in a Windows-friendly
way? Would she be able to assign, say, a .jpg extension to a photo before
emailing it?

Thanks,

Jack Crane
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Yes, they can assign an extension. This is the whole resource/data fox thing
that Mac's have. Data fork for the data, resource fork for think like which
kind of file it is (and the associated app/icon). And they probably should
too.
Click to expand...

In addition to using the correct extension, if their email application
supports it they should select "Send in Windows-Friendly Format".

I run Apple Mail v.1.2.5 under OSX 10.2.8 - which doesn't, but fortunately I
have Entourage X where I can select (under Attachments):

"Encode for Windows (Base64/MIME); no compression; Windows file name
extensions"
 
Jack Crane said:
I use Windows XP and just received a photo from a Mac-using friend. It
showed up in my Eudora as "$BDEGH(Bjpeg". I was able to open it only by
making the right choice from a long list of programs offered by Windows XP,
Irfanview, which opened the photo. I was then able to save it as a .jpg .

But other, more newbie-ish recipients will be stymied. Is there some advice
I can give my Mac-using friend on how to email photos in a Windows-friendly
way? Would she be able to assign, say, a .jpg extension to a photo before
emailing it?

Thanks,

Jack Crane
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For future pictures, have your friend save them as either a gif or jpeg.
These are universal formats which are usable on almost all machines. I know
there is a way to do it as I also have a Mac using friend who sent me
pictures in both formats; they opened without me having to do the hoop jumps
you did.

Malv
 
In addition to using the correct extension, if their email application
supports it they should select "Send in Windows-Friendly Format".

I run Apple Mail v.1.2.5 under OSX 10.2.8 - which doesn't, but fortunately I
have Entourage X where I can select (under Attachments):

"Encode for Windows (Base64/MIME); no compression; Windows file name
extensions"
Click to expand...

Also, whether or not you have problems receiving may depend on the ISPs
involved. My friend on AOL has trouble decoding attachments which I send
thru my Freeserve (Wanadoo) account unless I encode them as above, but I
have no problem sending to another friend who is with tiscali !
 
So I send my friend a link to this thread at Google Groups, and get back,
"I don't understand any of this". But she'd asked a friend where she is
who advised her that a Windows user could just drag the problem Mac icons
for a photo to an IE window and drop them. Works for me with both IE and
Firefox.

Jack
 
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