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To save yourself the bother of checking each file (at the expense of slightly less
beautiful file names), choose Finder > Preferences, click the Advanced button on
the toolbar, and select the Show All Filename Extensions checkbox. This tells the
Finder to always display filename extensions on the Desktop, in folders, and so
on, so you can see those extensions at a glance. (This can also be useful when
you have multiple documents in a folder with the same name but different ex-
tensions and want to be sure you attach the right one.)
Always use Windows-friendly attachments: Sending attachments in
“Windows friendly” format (which omits resource forks, if they exist) usually
makes them friendlier for Macs too. To tell Mail to use Windows-friendly encod-
ing for all new messages, choose Edit > Attachments > Always Send Windows-
Friendly Attachments (the default setting).
Curiously, although this command appears on a menu, it's saved as a preference.
Equally oddly, the command is disabled when you compose a new message, al-
though it appears as a checkbox at the bottom of the file selection dialog when
you click the Attach button on the toolbar. But as long as you have that menu
command checked, you'll prevent the problem of Windows seeing certain single
files as two separate files.
Forget what you see on the screen: In an outgoing message, you can right-
click (Control-click) a graphical attachment and choose Show As Icon to display
an icon in place of the full graphic. However, this does not affect how Mail sends
the message . Even though a file appears as an icon on your screen, it may appear
inline on the recipient's screen. The opposite can also happen: You set a graphic
to appear inline but it doesn't on the other end. That's typically because the re-
cipient's email client does not support inline graphics display (many, but not all,
do)—or because the recipient has turned off the inline display option.
You can solve many of Mail's icon-versus-inline graphic problems with
Lokiware's Attachment Tamer . For incoming and outgoing messages, this plug-
in lets you choose whether to display graphics, PDF documents, text attach-
ments, and HTML files inline—always, never, or only under a given size. Because
it changes the way Mail sends and processes messages, it greatly increases the
probability that the sender and recipient will see attachments in the same way.
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