[HM] Re: Sending jpegs

[Jane Sprando]

Not all the recipients are on AOL, but most are Windows users. The friend
that I sent the trial zipped picture to was an AOL Windows user and she was
able to open it.  So hopefully zipping is the key.

Thanks for looking up that AOL Aladdin link.

jane

> From: T. Brown / groucho <btgroucho at earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: "Home Macintosh Users List"<HomeMac at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 21:48:39 -0800
> To: "Home Macintosh Users List" <HomeMac at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: [HM] Re: Sending jpegs
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 07:03  PM, Jane Sprando wrote:
> 
>> I sent a picture to myself, dragged it to my desktop and did a get
>> Info. It
>> says it is a Picture Viewer document (QuickTime) just like the one
>> that I
>> sent. So it doesn't seem that anything is changed.
>> 
> 
> I didn't think it changed anything but it was possible. So is it only
> your AOL friends with problems or are they Windows users as well ?
> 
> AOL and Hotmail both play games with attachments. Have them do a Get
> Properties on the attachments. This might help to track down the
> problem. I think that AOL is changing the format of the attachments.
> 
> 
> 
> Okay here's what I dug up. AOL users need to use Aladdin Expander for
> Windows, I'm guessing that's who you are sending to. AOL won't
> automatically open attachments. So have them save them to a folder then
> use the program to unstuff them. Here is the link.
> 
> http://www.stuffit.com/expander/winindex.html
> 
> 
> groucho