Attachments encoding

[John Wolf]

I have setup Entourage to use AppleDouble for encoding. Is this the best
encoding method? Also when I attach a folder Entourage uses Mac Stuffit
which PC users cannot read universally. I believe an older version of Eudora
had the ability to attach as .zip, so why cant Entourage? Thanks..


John

 

[Adam Bailey]

I have setup Entourage to use AppleDouble for encoding. Is this the best
encoding method?

No, unless you're sending files where the resource fork must be
maintained (which is almost never), I recommend using Base64.

Also when I attach a folder Entourage uses Mac Stuffit
which PC users cannot read universally. I believe an older version of Eudora
had the ability to attach as .zip, so why cant Entourage? Thanks..

This is a question for Microsoft. You can always get one of the many
free programs to ZIP the folder, such as ZipIt, but I agree that the
extra step is cumbersome. That said, in most cases it's probably
preferable to just attach all the individual files rather than a
folder.

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

I have setup Entourage to use AppleDouble for encoding. Is this the best
encoding method? Also when I attach a folder Entourage uses Mac Stuffit
which PC users cannot read universally. I believe an older version of Eudora
had the ability to attach as .zip, so why cant Entourage? Thanks..

Are you still using Entourage 2004? Entourage 2008 will compress in .zip
format.

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[Ed Kimball]

No, unless you're sending files where the resource fork must be
maintained (which is almost never), I recommend using Base64.


This is a question for Microsoft. You can always get one of the many
free programs to ZIP the folder, such as ZipIt, but I agree that the
extra step is cumbersome. That said, in most cases it's probably
preferable to just attach all the individual files rather than a
folder.

You don't even have to use ZipIt. OS X 10.5 and later will zip files for
you. Just select the file and choose Compress <file> from either the File
menu or the contextual menu (from right-click or ctrl-click).

 

[John Wolf]

No, unless you're sending files where the resource fork must be
maintained (which is almost never), I recommend using Base64.

I don't think OSX uses the resource Fork and the type/creator system like OS
9 & earlier did. So when I email files know will they be smaller? The Apple
Double format made files much larger. I could email a 330K jpg image and it
would send 437K and so forth. But regardless 99.9% of people I email are
using Windows and if not Windows OSX. Few people are using OS 9 & earlier
these days.

This is a question for Microsoft. You can always get one of the many
free programs to ZIP the folder, such as ZipIt, but I agree that the
extra step is cumbersome. That said, in most cases it's probably
preferable to just attach all the individual files rather than a
folder.

I have free software and do not prefer the extra step. It should be a built
in feature. My guess is that even Entourage 2008 does not have this feature.
Looking at 04 & 08 there does not appear to be enough new features for me to
fork out the upgrade costs so I will just continue to use 2004.


John

 

[John Wolf]

Yes I am

Are you still using Entourage 2004? Entourage 2008 will compress in .zip
format.

 

[John Wolf]

You don't even have to use ZipIt. OS X 10.5 and later will zip files for
you. Just select the file and choose Compress <file> from either the File
menu or the contextual menu (from right-click or ctrl-click).

This is false information. OSX 10.4 will also compress to the zip format as
well. Its still an extra step but it works. I am still using Office 2004. I
could have bought 2008 for a low cost, but there was not enough different in
it to make the change. Although auto compressing to .zip by Entourage may
have been one good reason.


John

 

[Ed Kimball]

This is false information. OSX 10.4 will also compress to the zip format as
well. Its still an extra step but it works. I am still using Office 2004. I
could have bought 2008 for a low cost, but there was not enough different in
it to make the change. Although auto compressing to .zip by Entourage may
have been one good reason.


John

FWIW, this is not "false information". I didn't say whether OS X 10.4 would
compress because I didn't remember. I certainly didn't say anything untrue.

I guess you have to decide whether avoiding the extra step is worth the cost
of moving to 2008 (and giving up VB macros).