Will Apple ever make a "normal" Mac? (1 Viewer)

[MarkHastings]

Yeah, the JPEG thing (and other picture formats) can be a nightmare, but that's because Macs can handle complex picture formats and need to be retranslated (or "toned down") for PC's. That's definitely not a Mac fault.

Also, the mail server could be the culprit that is corrupting the file. And that's probably because most all mail servers are PC based and again, that's not a Mac fault either.

 

[GloriaJeans]

Mark, I hope they pay you WELL for defending Macs like that

 

[MarkHastings]

They pay me well for my computer knowledge (Mac and PC) combined.

I only defend Macs because almost all Mac bashing comes from ignorance.

I'm sure the 'techys' here can relate. When someone downloads a virus and then blames the computer "Stupid computer! It never works right!"

 

[Andrew Pratt]

There's a setting in Mail to send attachements in a windows friendly manner but I haven't played with it yet to see if makes much difference.

 

[DaveF]

Err...what? Windows PCs are quite capable of handling "complex picture formats" like JPEG without any retranslation or tone-downification.

Macs do (did?) send images in a weird way, compared to the Windows world. When my fiance emailed me images from her Mac, my PC, via Outlook or Thunderbird, received two copies of each image. One was empty, the other had the actual data. Her friends also had the same problems receiving pictures from her Mac email.

I've also found that Mac Mail forcibly splits lines of text, which invariably breaks links in email. I've not found a way to turn off that behavior. Outlook and Thunderbird don't seem to cause that same problem.


I really like the ease of networking. After a Google search, it was easy for her Mac to see my PC's shared folders and the networked printer. My PC took some work, requiring the printer's installation software, and a more complex process to see the Mac's shared folders. But this beats all compared to the days of Win95 with clunky MacLan software and OS9.

 

[MarkHastings]

I mean "complex picture formats" like HD picture files:
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/...d.php?t=246720

 

[Michael_K_Sr]

Anyone using Mail.app to send attachments to PC users should make sure the "Always Send Windows Friendly Attachments" preference is turned on. This will ensure that the resource fork is stripped from the attachments and should mean the recipient will not receive two separate files.

 

[DaveF]

Thanks. Wish I'd known about that a couple years ago. Is there a way to also tell it to not insert hard line breaks?

 

[Michael_K_Sr]

Do the hard line breaks even show up in messages sent as plain text? The "Send as Windows Friendly Attachments" only showed up in 10.3. When we were on 10.2, we were able to remove the resource forks by using a contextual menu utility called GrimRipper.

 

[Patrick Larkin]

Wait. A Mac user sends jpgs and the Windows machine magically coverts them to GIFs and corrupts them and thats a Mac problem?

I've worked in a Mac/Windows world for 17 years and have never seen that.

 

[GloriaJeans]

Don't know whether it's a Mac problem, but it only happens when the sender uses a Mac.