How to disable stuffit in Entourage

[rmccaffertyy]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop

We have Microsoft Office for a Mac, which we need for interaction with all of our corporate clients. Proposed solutions that involve not using Entourage will not help me.

When I try to send a document in Entrourage with attachments, Stuffit (a program that apparently comes with Entourage) automatically compresses the attachments. It adds a .sit to the file name.

The problem is that recipients cannot open the compressed files and I do not want to try to educate the rest of the world on how to use Stuffit. It does not seem to matter how large the files are (or are not) nor now many files are being attached.

I went to Entourage settings (Preferences | Mails and News Settings | Compose) and set it for do not compress as well as "encode for any computer." Yet Stuffit keeps on compressing attachments.

I need to stop having attachments automatically compressed. Anyone know how to do this without completely uninstalling Stuffit? (I can find any option for just turning it on or off, or disabling it, etc.) Life on a Mac just isn't supposed to be this complicated.

 

[Michel Bintener]

Disabling the option in Entourage's preferences should normally do the job.
However, if you attach *folders* instead of files to Entourage messages, the
folder will be compressed automatically. Could that be the cause of your
problem?

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop

We have Microsoft Office for a Mac, which we need for interaction with all of
our corporate clients. Proposed solutions that involve not using Entourage
will not help me.

When I try to send a document in Entrourage with attachments, Stuffit (a
program that apparently comes with Entourage) automatically compresses the
attachments. It adds a .sit to the file name.

The problem is that recipients cannot open the compressed files and I do not
want to try to educate the rest of the world on how to use Stuffit. It does
not seem to matter how large the files are (or are not) nor now many files are
being attached.

I went to Entourage settings (Preferences | Mails and News Settings | Compose)
and set it for do not compress as well as "encode for any computer." Yet
Stuffit keeps on compressing attachments.

I need to stop having attachments automatically compressed. Anyone know how to
do this without completely uninstalling Stuffit? (I can find any option for
just turning it on or off, or disabling it, etc.) Life on a Mac just isn't
supposed to be this complicated.

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)

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[Diane Ross]

Disabling the option in Entourage's preferences should normally do the job.
However, if you attach *folders* instead of files to Entourage messages, the
folder will be compressed automatically. Could that be the cause of your
problem?

Archive (zip) the folders before attaching or upgrade to Entourage 2008.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
YouTalk <http://tinyurl.com/bzcrjy> <-- Entourage mailing list
Twitter: follow <http://twitter.com/entouragehelp>

 

[rmccaffertyy]

Going to Entourage preferences was the first thing I did. The are set for Compression = None and Encoding: For any computer (appledouble).

And I really do get the part about attaching files vs folders.

At this point, I was just like Stuffit to stop working altogether until and unless I request it to begin working again.

Any ideas?

Robert