My wife received an email with an MS Word attachment, using SM on a Mac.
Double-clicking didn't open it. Clicking Open... didn't open it. I tried
to save the attachment. Got a dialog saying something like "can't save.
Check the filename. Try again later." After a moment or so, an icon
appeared on the desktop with the filename. It thought it was an AbiWord
document. I tried to open it with OpenOffice and got nothing.
'Twas then I noticed that it was a file of zero bytes. :/
Checked the message source and saw that, yeah, there actually was a
bunch of data in the attachment. But being unable to open or save it, I
decided to forward it to me.
I collected the mail in TB on a PC. The attachment opened readily in MS
Word. I printed to a PDF and dropped that PDF onto the Mac. On the Mac,
I opened it with Preview and it was garbage. I figured I must have some
other software on the Mac that would read PDF. In fact, I had Adobe
Reader, which readily displayed the file wonderfully. I then printed it.
Hell of a lot of BS to go thru just for a @*#(%& Word file!
We mustn't be the only ones experiencing this. What is it that turns an
attachment into poison?
--
Malcolm
"They should know they're the Grateful Dead now." -- Phil
Secrets of the science of getting rich -- free!
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