Problem receiving Mac photo attachments

canarytops

Hi, I'm an XP Pro user (latest MS updates) running Outlook 2003 (similarly up to date) as my email client. A friend of mine is a Mac user and has been trying to email me some photographs. He's apparently using a Mac app called iPhoto. He emails me a photo from iPhoto and I receive the email. However on my system what he advises is a .JPG file seems to be a .BMP (at least that's the only option I have when I try to "save as"). I'm afraid we're both pretty ignorant of the other's environments but he insists that if he emails the photo to another Mac account it is received as a .JPG file.

I'm kind of hoping that someone might now a bit about both "ends" of this issuette ?

almillar

Can you try to save it to the desktop (or anywhere) instead of simply double clicking it?

weegie.geek

Outlook will only save as a .bmp.

http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/saveembeddedpictures.htm

tronator

canarytops wrote: »

I'm kind of hoping that someone might now a bit about both "ends" of this issuette ?

weegie.geek wrote: »

Outlook will only save as a .bmp.

http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/saveembeddedpictures.htm

If this solution looks too complicated to you, ask the sender to use a "normal" email program instead of iPhoto and attach the photo(s) instead of embedding it.

weegie.geek

Or make yourself a gmail account and get your friend to mail the photos to it.

So tempted to suggest you use something better than outlook too...

canarytops

Thanks for the replies, I should have mentioned that the photos in question were received as attachments not as embedded objects (not sure whether that "invalidates" your Outlook how-to suggestion weegie.geek)

The attempt to "save" was via "right click, save as" not double-click.

I have asked the Mac user to use a "proper" email program but it's claimed that's long winded (!) and I get the ".. can't Windows manage simple photo attachments .. " etc comments. (That is there is a degree of OS based rivalry at stake !).

I would add that this isn't a show-stopper I can get my hands on the photos, I just want to understand why it doesn't seem to be possible to save te attachment as a .JPG, it would be even better to find out that iPhoto has actually converted the .JPG to a BMP.

ps I use Outlook to "manage" multiple email accounts which is rather labourious via webmail.

weegie.geek

Windows can manage photo attachments fine. Outlook can't. Outlook is the dinosaur because it only saves as .bmp and not .jpg or whatever other format the photo is in.

If you use multiple email accounts, give thunderbird a spin. It'll handle whatever attachments and embedded files you throw at it.

chorlton

I reckon your friend is sending emails as HTML - So he needs to go into mail composing preferences - and change from HTML to plain text.

weegie.geek

If Outlook can't handle HTML emails it should be discarded for something that can. I really don't think the problem is at the sender's end.

canarytops

weegie.geek wrote: »

Windows can manage photo attachments fine. Outlook can't. Outlook is the dinosaur because it only saves as .bmp and not .jpg or whatever other format the photo is in.

If you use multiple email accounts, give thunderbird a spin. It'll handle whatever attachments and embedded files you throw at it.

Not sure if I'm missing something here but I'm able to save any kind of file attachments from any other users from Outlook be they .jpg, .pdf or any other file type ?

tronator

canarytops wrote: »

ps I use Outlook to "manage" multiple email accounts which is rather labourious via webmail.

Try out Thunderbird. It manages multiple email accounts much better. If all your accounts are IMAP, then you can use Outlook and Thunderbird at the same time.

The last time I looked at Outlook, there was one default account which was used by default when composing a new email. You needed to select the other email address from a drop down list, which you forget quite regularely. In Thunderbird it uses the email account of the inbox you're in at the moment.