Attachment Compression in Entourage 2008

[Sue Donum]

The default seems to be to compress all attachments, even though the Help
file indicates that only folders are automatically compressed. So, the Help
file is clearly incorrect.

In Preferences, I can choose to de-select "compression." However, I'm just
curious why compression is the factory-selected default for all attachments.

 

[Barry Wainwright]

The default seems to be to compress all attachments, even though the Help
file indicates that only folders are automatically compressed. So, the Help
file is clearly incorrect.

In Preferences, I can choose to de-select "compression." However, I'm just
curious why compression is the factory-selected default for all attachments.

I don't know why - we are only users, not the designers of the applications!

Whatever option you select as the default behaviour in the preferences,
you can change the actual behaviour on a message by message basis by
clicking on the button that shows beneath teh attachments pane in a new
message window when that attachments pane is expanded.