Entourage insists on compressing folders when used as attachments. How would
Windows users receive it? Can compression be turned off for folders?

...Biajn

Re: Problem with Entourage compressing folders by Dave

Dave
Tue Sep 09 19:37:26 CDT 2003

On 9/9/03 6:41 AM, in article BB8350B4.28678%bijan.mobasseri@villanova.edu,
"Bijan Mobasseri" <bijan.mobasseri@villanova.edu> wrote:

> Entourage insists on compressing folders when used as attachments. How would
> Windows users receive it? Can compression be turned off for folders?

Windows users can download the free Stuffit Decoder to open such an
attachment. Entourage has to do this to preserve the file hierarchy. If you
don't want this, add each individual file in the folder as an attachment.


Re: Problem with Entourage compressing folders by Paul

Paul
Tue Sep 09 22:58:38 CDT 2003

On 9/9/03 5:37 PM, in article BB83C056.2039%dc@dev.null, "Dave Cortright"
<dc@dev.null> wrote:

> On 9/9/03 6:41 AM, in article BB8350B4.28678%bijan.mobasseri@villanova.edu,
> "Bijan Mobasseri" <bijan.mobasseri@villanova.edu> wrote:
>
>> Entourage insists on compressing folders when used as attachments. How would
>> Windows users receive it? Can compression be turned off for folders?
>
> Windows users can download the free Stuffit Decoder

"Aladdin Expander for Windows", from Aladdin

> to open such an
> attachment. Entourage has to do this to preserve the file hierarchy. If you
> don't want this, add each individual file in the folder as an attachment.


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Re: Problem with Entourage compressing folders by Mickey

Mickey
Thu Sep 11 20:03:29 CDT 2003

On 9/9/03 10:58 PM, in article BB83EF7E.4025B%berkowit@silcom.com, "Paul
Berkowitz" <berkowit@silcom.com> wrote:

> On 9/9/03 5:37 PM, in article BB83C056.2039%dc@dev.null, "Dave Cortright"
> <dc@dev.null> wrote:
>
>> On 9/9/03 6:41 AM, in article BB8350B4.28678%bijan.mobasseri@villanova.edu,
>> "Bijan Mobasseri" <bijan.mobasseri@villanova.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Entourage insists on compressing folders when used as attachments. How would
>>> Windows users receive it? Can compression be turned off for folders?
>>
>> Windows users can download the free Stuffit Decoder
>
> "Aladdin Expander for Windows", from Aladdin

It's actually now called StuffIt Expander, though it is made by Aladdin
Systems.
<http://www.stuffit.com/win/expander/>

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