Receiving WIN.DAT attachment instead ofattached document sent from Outlook

[gskesq]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop

When I attach word documents to my outlook email and send them to myself, I can open them on my pc but not on the emails downloaded to my mac. My outlook is set on hmtl and changing it to plain text as some have suggested has not worked. Is there some way to send attachments from Outlook so that they arrive as a document attachment (instead of win.dat) and can be opened on Entourage?

 

[Barry Wainwright]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor:
Intel Email Client: pop

When I attach word documents to my outlook email and send them to
myself, I can open them on my pc but not on the emails downloaded to
my mac. My outlook is set on hmtl and changing it to plain text as
some have suggested has not worked. Is there some way to send
attachments from Outlook so that they arrive as a document attachment
(instead of win.dat) and can be opened on Entourage?

as well as the global default setting for HTML/plain text, each
individual contact can be set to use a particular format, over-riding
the default application setting.

 

[gskesq]

Thank you for your response. I tried changing the default attachment properties and that did not cure the problem. Is there an entourage add-in that can do the conversion? Some of the documents I forward are those that I have created in word, others are documents created by others which have been sent to me. Most, but not all, come out as win.dat. I do not know why some forward OK and others do not. I use word as my editor in Outlook also.

 

[Barry Wainwright]

Thank you for your response. I tried changing the default attachment
properties and that did not cure the problem. Is there an entourage
add-in that can do the conversion? Some of the documents I forward
are those that I have created in word, others are documents created
by others which have been sent to me. Most, but not all, come out as
win.dat. I do not know why some forward OK and others do not. I use
word as my editor in Outlook also.

just changing the default setting will have no effect if the individual
contact record has a 'rft' format setting. You need to find where this
setting is in the contact record and change it to either html or plain text.

to decode attachments already received, google for a utility called
'tnef's enough'

 

[gskesq]

The tnefs enough program works - though it takes a few steps. Thanks for your help. It appears that you are with Microsoft - it would be great if Microsoft could do something to make the process of sending attachments between Outlook and Entourage seamless or have an addon that could convert with one click.

 

[Barry Wainwright]

The tnefs enough program works - though it takes a few steps. Thanks
for your help.

Glad it helped you. Better woul be to find where in the contact record
that setting is stored and put it rigth!

It appears that you are with Microsoft - it would be
great if Microsoft could do something to make the process of sending
attachments between Outlook and Entourage seamless or have an addon
that could convert with one click.

NO, NO NO!!!

MVPs are NOT Microsoft employees. We are completely independent
volunteers who just happen to like helping people out who are having
problems. I am quite likely to tell a user to switch to mail.app or
Eudora as an alternative to Entourage, if I thought that was the better
solution to a particular problem.

The MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award is granted by MS each year to
individuals who have, in the preceding 12 months, shown technical
expertise and a willingness to assist users of Microsoft products. It
often applies to forum/newsgroup support such as is undertaken here, but
can be for assistance in other areas as well. When I was first awarded
there were only a few hundred MVPs worldwide. there are now about 5,000

See more about the MVP programme here:
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?lc=1033

 

[Diane Ross]

It appears that you are with Microsoft

MVPs are volunteers not employees.

 

[Guest]

I use mac mail and I'm hoping to find a way to convert thousands of mail files to pdf's. The only way I know of is the one-at-a-time "file/print/save as pdf" approach. I also need to be able to open the win.dat attachments contained within. I've been using TNEF's Enough, and that's worked with DOC, PDF, XLS & JPG but not all win.dat's open - sometimes only get a blank screen with no visible document. Any help you can offer would be much appreciated.

 

[Diane Ross]

I use mac mail and I'm hoping to find a way to convert thousands of mail files
to pdf's. The only way I know of is the one-at-a-time "file/print/save as pdf"
approach. I also need to be able to open the win.dat attachments contained
within. I've been using TNEF's Enough, and that's worked with DOC, PDF, XLS &
JPG but not all win.dat's open - sometimes only get a blank screen with no
visible document. Any help you can offer would be much appreciated.

Not sure if this would help, but check out this script:

Entourage Many to Word By: Allen Watson

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/downloads/scripts/allen/Entourage Many to
%20Word%20v1.3.zip>

This script will take one or more selected messages (or a single message if
open) and will write them all to a single Microsoft Word document.

You could look to using Automator to do this. Scripts can be pasted into an
Automator action then save them as PDF.