[HM] Zip, .sit, Stuffit = confusion!

[Tom Burton]

Val -

Let's back up a step or two...

What camera do you have that "only works with the Mac"?

What file format do you have the camera set for (i.e., in what format 
are the picture files saved in the camera and/or made available to 
the computer?

What method do you use for getting the picture files from the camera 
to your Mac? (Cable connection, transfer software or ???)

With the answers to these, hopefully we can help resolve your problem.

Tom Burton



>In a message dated 2/27/2003 8:14:50 AM, HomeMac at lists.themacintoshguy.com
>writes:
>
><< 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
>
>>   >>
>
>Hi,
>I am having major confusion over just this kind of stuff.  I have a new PC
>with WinXP and would like to send pics from my digital camera (which only
>works with the MAC) over to my PC.
>I downloaded Stuffit Expander for Windows to the PC.  I thought it was free;
>however, after a month went by they wanted money to continue the right to use
>it.  In the meantime I think I had used it exactly once.
>Then I read elsewhere that the Expander was definitely free & 'here is the
>link'.  Well, I trashed the other version and have the "new" download on the
>PC but have not installed it yet.  Sigh, it looks just like the other version
>(7.0??) and I KNOW I'm going to have the same trouble with it after a month.
>How can they advertize something as totally free forever and then pull this
>garbage??
>I don't want the other things this program has, only the Expander.
>I also have a program, "Conversions Plus" which is apparently the PC
>equivalent of MacLinkPlus for the MAC.  It needs to have a compression
>program to make it work - it does not include Stuffit so you need to have a
>version on your machine.
>I don't  know if it would work with Winzip or not - all of this is new to me;
>this is my first PC.  I want eventually to move a lot of stuff from my older
>IMAC over to the PC.
>I haven't done much experimenting yet; I did try to sent a .sit file of
>pictures over to the PC via AOL email and it could not open it.  Individually
>yes, but not as a .sit file.
>--- Maybe I need a zip program for the MAC (to send files to the PC???)
>Will the above link take me to that??  At the moment I can't even get to the
>website to check...I think, though, this the above link is the same one I
>used to download what I already have on the PC.  Sigh, I would love to just
>stay with the MAC but in my circumstances its not possible.  I'm running OS
>9.0.
>Any suggestions welcomed because I'm really confused here.
>Val
>
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