Opening a CD photos attachment to an email

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I have downloaded an attachment of my niece's photos, but now I cannot open
it. The message says, " winmail.dat (7.8MB) is not a valid win32
application" but of course I don't understand what that means nor how to
overcome it. Can anyone help please? I think she has sent me the photos
on a CD.
 
AuntieFishface said:
I have downloaded an attachment of my niece's photos, but
now I cannot open it. The message says, " winmail.dat
(7.8MB) is not a valid win32 application" but of course I
don't understand what that means nor how to overcome it.
Can anyone help please? I think she has sent me the
photos on a CD.
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Maybe the following article will offer some ideas:

Problems forming attachments: The Winmail.dat dilemma
http://www.lehigh.edu/helpdesk/docs/email-guide/winmail.htm

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Auntie

Get hold of your niece and ask her to email the photos again.

This time send in "Plain Text" rather than in RTF format.

And no.........you cannot email a CD over the internet.

A CD is a physical disk and will not fit through the phone lines.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
 
AuntieFishface said:
I have downloaded an attachment of my niece's photos, but now I cannot open
it. The message says, " winmail.dat (7.8MB) is not a valid win32
application" but of course I don't understand what that means nor how to
overcome it. Can anyone help please? I think she has sent me the photos
on a CD.
Click to expand...
 
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