Another 'Appleworks' question...

[sunset]

Have been trying to send one in the form of an attachment to a friend, with and w/o the extension, who has a cable modem and Road Runner.

The message appears to 'send' just fine taking its time to go through the motions as it would with any fairly large attachment.  Initially, the icon in the 'Sent' box has a paper clip attached and the size of the sent file is what one would expect given the size.  A couple seconds after it completes the transfer, the 'paper clip' disappears--then I know the attachment didn't 'make it'.  Upon opening the 'sent' message, there's no attachment box shown either.  

Guess my question is, "why"?  RTFs, pdf's, jpegs and .doc files are no problem.  Any thoughts/ideas what the problem might be?  Recipient is a Mac user.

TIA!

Laurel

[kps]

My answer is based on a couple of assumptions...

You're on OS X
The recepient is on a Mac, using OSX and has AppleWorks.

Try sending the thing as a zip file.

In the Finder, highlight the document, right click or Control+click the file, choose "Create Achive of 'document_name' ".

attach the resulting 'document_name.zip' file.

[Paddy]

Which mail program are you using, Laurel?

[sunset]

QUOTE(Paddy @ Aug 14 2007, 06:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Which mail program are you using, Laurel?

"SeaMonkey", Paddy--I just find that rather strange.  I will try KPS's 'fix' and see what happens.  Sounds simple enough but

Thanks for your responses...

Laurel

[sunset]

QUOTE(kps @ Aug 14 2007, 05:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

My answer is based on a couple of assumptions...

You're on OS X
The recepient is on a Mac, using OSX and has AppleWorks.

Try sending the thing as a zip file.

In the Finder, highlight the document, right click or Control+click the file, choose "Create Achive of 'document_name' ".

attach the resulting 'document_name.zip' file.

Thanks, KPS--I followed your instructions and sent it to her and myself.  It worked like a charm!!  The older I get, the less I know...  

[kps]

You're welcome, glad it worked.

[tacit]

QUOTE(sunset @ Aug 14 2007, 08:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Have been trying to send one in the form of an attachment to a friend, with and w/o the extension, who has a cable modem and Road Runner.

The message appears to 'send' just fine taking its time to go through the motions as it would with any fairly large attachment.  Initially, the icon in the 'Sent' box has a paper clip attached and the size of the sent file is what one would expect given the size.  A couple seconds after it completes the transfer, the 'paper clip' disappears--then I know the attachment didn't 'make it'.  Upon opening the 'sent' message, there's no attachment box shown either.  

Guess my question is, "why"?  RTFs, pdf's, jpegs and .doc files are no problem.  Any thoughts/ideas what the problem might be?  Recipient is a Mac user.

TIA!

Laurel

How big was the file? Almost all ISPs have a limit on the size of an attachment you can send. It's possible that zipping the file reduced its size below the maximum size your ISP permits.

[sunset]

Tacit--the file was just under 2MB.  My friend and I have sent much larger files back and forth.  In just checking my 'Sent' folder, I found one that was 5.5MB and another, 3388KB and more.  The only large files that didn't 'make it' were built in AW.

Good thought, tho', but I think, in this case it has to do with that program.

Thanks, Laurel

PS:  In checking the email with the zipped file that did make it, it was 2060KB in size.  Go figure.....