[garlicscapes]

If I receive a zipped file of a pick as an attachment, why does it not open when I doubt click on it. I know I could drag it to my desktop and open it from there, but you would think it would just open from my Entrouage program.

Thx.

[TETENAL]

Questions about Entourage behavior would belong into the Applications-forum.

Mail.app does unzip ZIP-archives on double-click and then the files are hanging around in the ~/Library/Mail Downloads/ folder endlessly waiting to be discovered. Most users will probably assume nothing happened. Maybe that behavior was too awkward for Microsoft, so they just didn't allow it.

[garlicscapes]

Thanks. I wasn't sure which forum this belonged to.

It looks like Entrouage does the same thing as Mail. When you double click, it goes into Saved Attachments in the Documents folder. Then you have to go to the Finder, Documents, Microsoft User Data, Saved Attachments.

I was thinking of sending pictures after zipping. I send to both Mac and PC users. But it looks like it is some work for the receiver. I wonder why a double click just doesn't open it up for viewing.

[TETENAL]

Double-clicking opens the file. For a ZIP that means unpacking. If you then wanted to open the unzipped files as well, the mail program would have to handle ZIP files differently and initiate another open action. What if there are 1000 pictures in a ZIP archive? That could piss off the receiver if they all opened and made their computer unresponsive. What if a trojan is in the ZIP archive? Etc. So there are issues with doing this automatically.

Why do you ZIP pictures you send via mail? Just directly use a compressed image format like JPEG and they can always effortlessly and directly be viewed by the receiver.

[garlicscapes]

That makes sense.

I guess zipping is more for archiving. No need to buy DropStuff now .