How to send .jpg to Windows users so they can open it?

[MamaMoose]

I have a problem in sending .jpg photos to friends and family who run Windows (2000, XP, 98?). Some complain they cannot open the picture. I think I or someone has asked this question before and I apologize because I don't remember what was the solution.

 I am running a dual 2 GHz G5 with 3 GB of RAM running OS 10.4.3. I use Eudora 6.2.3 as my e-mail client . I have this problem whether I send the photo as an attachment or drop it into the body of the e-mail. I have the choice of attachment coding: AppleDouble ("MIME"); AppleSingle, BinHex, or Uuencode data fork. I have selected the latter. If I drag the photo into the e-mail body, would the attachment encoding affect the photo when opened in Windows?

Thanks for any help you can give me.

MamaMoose

[RobW]

I'm not using my eMac (which is the Mac I'm usually on) now, so I have to double check when I'm on there, but I believe using Entourage, I use "Any Computer (AppleDouble)." (This sounds somewhat similar to the issue we've had before with people who use "Mail" sending emails to Windows/AOL users.) Somewhere around there's a well written explanation from Tacit (no surprise ) on this subject. (In fact, I think Pendragon has reposted it from time to time.) Wasn't there also something about stuffing the file which helped when the recipient unstuffed it?    

[FLASH1296]

Yes, the method you use is crucial.
I switched to "Mail" fropm EudoraPro6 (after almost 15 yrs as a Eudora evangelist)
In Apple's "Mail" there is an option to check when sending attachments to WindoZe users.

MEANWHILE . . . Try this:  rename the obstreperous file(s) by changing the extension to  JPEG. (from .jpg)


This just may work.

[RobW]

I found this  (very old) post from Tacit. Flash1296's idea of changing the name of the file sounds like a possible fix.

[Paddy]

QUOTE(RobW @ Apr 14 2006, 07:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I found this  (very old) post from Tacit. Flash1296's idea of changing the name of the file sounds like a possible fix.

Um, Rob - perhaps you should read that post from Tacit again!

DO NOT change the file name extension to ".jpeg" - Windows uses THREE letter extensions (as does Mac OS X) and it will not recognize the file at all.

MM, are you by any chance sending files to AOL or MSN users? If so, I've found that you absolutely must encode them for Windows (MIME) - otherwise, the obnoxious AOL/MSN servers eat the attachments for lunch. You didn't indicate that you had that option, but according to a brief search - you should have that option. Appledouble is the default encoding for all Mac email programs I've used and the Cornell instructions indicate that this is true for the Mac version of Eudora as well. AOL doesn't play nice with Appledouble.

[RobW]

Aaarrggh, it was a long week. It wasn't Tacit's post I read wrong, it was everything else that was written in this thread I misread. (Maybe I can figure out a way to blame it on the software upgrade. )

QUOTE(Paddy @ Apr 14 2006, 11:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Um, Rob - perhaps you should read that post from Tacit again!

DO NOT change the file name extension to ".jpeg" - Windows uses THREE letter extensions (as does Mac OS X) and it will not recognize the file at all. ...

[kimmer]

(Oh my gosh - can't believe the reply window actually opened today!) Yippee. :rabbit2:

One thing that works for me is to ZIP jpg's. That stops isp's from (especially AOL) from adding any goofy coding to the pics. Even if it's only one jpg - I zip it.

Hope you get it to work, MM.

[MamaMoose]

Thanks everyone for your advice. I tried Binhex coding and it worked with my AOL user friend. So, all is well.

MamaMoose

[JohnKentucky]

This is all I have to do to get them to see my files:

[Highmac]

While not an answer to MM's problem this might be a bit of info useful to those sending and receiving pix. Our imaging folk at work (who use Macs) often have to deal with emailed pix. They always ask that pictures be sent as attachments and NOT dragged into the body of the email as those often corrupt.

Personally I resave pictures in Graphic Converter as "web-friendly" and rename with the old "eight dot three" format so that even people still running Win95 should be able to open them.

[csonni]

From my experience with Windows users, it's not the actual jpeg file they can't open but rather, a small file went with the jpeg.  It is usually several kilobytes.  Oftentimes, my contacts who use Windows will catch that and try opening the larger file of the two and will have no problem.  I'm not sure if that small additional file is sent just from Macs or if it is also sent along with attachements from Windows PCs.