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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / July 2006Unwanted Word Conversions with MAIL
My girlfriend's email has recently started converting her .doc files to .dat files when she sends them as attachments to pc users. That is she sends a .doc file but it arrives at the pc user's computer as a .dat file. She is using the latest version of Mac OSX and of Microsoft Office for Mac. She is also using the standard mail program that is packaged with new Macs. From what we have read here there may be some problem with the encoding that Mail does, but we aren't sure how to fix it. Can anyone help? She knows that she could convert them to .rtf files but doesn't always remember to do so and feels like she shouldn't have to deal with it since Macs are supposed to be "compatible with pcs" and hers has been until about a week ago. > My girlfriend's email has recently started converting her .doc files > to .dat files when she sends them as attachments to pc users. That is [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > shouldn't have to deal with it since Macs are supposed to be > "compatible with pcs" and hers has been until about a week ago. This is an untested wild guess: When she hits cmd-shift-a to bring up the attachment open dialog [1}, is the checkbox at the bottom of that panel "Send Windows Friendly Attachments" checked? Without it, Mail may send two files for one attachment. The second may be called .dat. It is the resource fork of the Mac .doc. That confuses some Windows mail programs no end. 1. There is probably an icon on the mail Window to do the same thing, but I have long since forgotten how to get it back. Hello - The .dat file is coming in to play as a result of Exchange Server, Mac file Resource Forks & perhaps some other mishmash that needn't be gone into in depth, but the fix _should_ be easy enough :) Have her go to Mail's EditMenu>Attachments>Always Send Windows Friendly Attachments, or if she prefers she can check the box in the Attachment window individually for each message when she selects the file to be attached. BTW - It won't have any effect on mail/attachments sent to other Mac users. Also, in Word's Save As dialog have her tick the checkbox for 'Append file extension' so the Word doc will be recognized as such on the other end. Once made, that setting should be retained so it won't have to be thought about from then on. HTH |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 7/28/06 5:08 PM, in article 1154120889.672846.283060@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com, "bkdolan@gmail.com" > My girlfriend's email has recently started converting her .doc files > to .dat files when she sends them as attachments to pc users. That is [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > shouldn't have to deal with it since Macs are supposed to be > "compatible with pcs" and hers has been until about a week ago. |
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