[ale] dealing with documents created on a Mac.

[George Allen]

Since one file actually was a word file, and the other junk, it sounds
like it packed both the file and a resource fork together in some type
of archive (I don't have a mac so I can't try it). Resource forks are
HFS's way of having multiple 'files' per file -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork

Just a guess... maybe there's another way to save it on the Mac end?
-George

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/28/2013 09:42 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
>
> I spent part of this evening (Monday) helping a friend edit an obit. Her
> husband died suddenly Saturday night, without warning.
>
> She is using Mac word processing software (not Micro$oft Word) and when she
> attached the file to an email, it came through compressed. When unpacked I
> had two directories, containing the file (and other crap) in two different
> formats: .doc and some Mac format.
>
> I finally figured out which file was in a format I could handle (nothing
> simple like a .doc extension) and finished my work.
>
> Question: Can the settings on her Mac be altered so that when it attaches a
> file created by this "word processer" it just attaches the file, without
> adding a ton of crapola, and without compressing anything? If so, how?
>
> I sent the file back to her in both .doc and .odt. Any guesses as to whether
> her software can handle either one, or both?
>
> I ask because I am likely to be asked to provide some more editing help over
> the course of the week.
>
> Sean
>
>
> Do you what the program is?
>
> --
> Jay Lozier
> jslozier at gmail.com
>
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