On Saturday, January 8, 2005, at 05:22 PM, Tim wrote:
On Jan 8, 2005, at 6:31 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Is it possible they were compressed before sending and that they're really .zip files? (I know, it makes no sense, but I've had mis-labelled attachments before like that)
It might be. I took Anna's advice and dropped them into MacLinkPlus. After the file in the window it said Gzip encoded archive.... But all the name says is one word then .jpg... I had previously tried to unstuff it and that didn't work either....
The file extension is merely a convention. just because something says it's a .jpg,. doesn't mean it is. It also may have been originally something like picture.jpg.gz and some system somewhere stripped off the end extension. I've seen this happen more than once with mail attachments.
Stuffit doesn't always work right without the extension, either
rename it from .jpg to .gz and see what happens.
If you're on a OS X system, change the name, and in terminal type:
gunzip -S .gz <filename>
If you didn't see JFIF in the file, then it's something else or corrupted.
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