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From: jj on 27 Jun 2010 16:20
I'm having trouble opening some attached jpegs in Eudora 6.2. It's a
fairly recent phenomenon, and the images are from the same two
photographers, whom I suspect are Mac users. I'm on a PC.

I don't use Microsoft's viewer. For jpegs I use a very basic program
called Picture Publisher. It handles everything fine but the stuff I
get from Phil and Bob. Far as I can tell, ANSI and/or HTML characters
are not supposed to show up in an image title. Are they doing
something wrong or am I?

Here's a typical error message when I click on the attachment (this
one from Phil):

"Windows cannot find
'C:\Eudora5.2\attach\HotPeppers�©PColwart.jpg'. Make sure you
typed the name correctly, and then try again."

Here's what I get when Bob sends me images.

"MASSIVE WIND SPILL IN WYOMING by B. Compton 6-9-10.jpeg "

shows up as:

"Windows cannot find 'C:\Eudora5.2\attach\MASSIVE WIND SPILL IN
WYOMING  by B. Compton 6-9-10.jpeg'. Make sure you typed the name
correctly, and then try again."

" " is HTML code for "space" or "indent." That'll probably work
if people are trying to see the photo in a browser, but it won't work
in a stand-alone e-mail program like Eudora, right? (He tells me he's
not choosing anything, the software is.)

If I open the Eudora attachment folder separately by going to the
Windows tree, here's what happens:

Using "Thumbnails," everything shows up.

Using "Details," Phil's pic is now named "HotPeppers©PColwart.jpg".
When I click on it, Picture Publisher tries to open it, but errors out
with "This file type is not supported on open." I can select "Open
with," and choose another program, which works fine, but I have to go
through all that work-around just to see what I'm being sent.

Using "Details," Bob's titles look normal. But when I click on them,
they immediately open in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer! I'm not
choosing it, the image is. (Or Windows is.)

Clicking on the thumbnails of either Phil's or Bob's gets the
identical results as above. So, just because Windows lets me see the
Thumbnails doesn't mean it will let me open them in my preferred
program.

Phil's trying to stick a Copyright seal in his titles. I do that
sometimes, too, but I never have a problem opening the files later.
Bob's not trying to do anything but send photos.

So what's really going on here? Is Eudora incapable of handling the
coding of these pix? Why would it only have problems with the pix from
these two guys?

(And btw, how come my Eudora v6.2 is pointing me to my old Eudora v5.2
attachment folder? How come installing 6.2 over 5.2 didn't change the
old folder name?)

Much thanks.

JJ




From: John H Meyers on 28 Jun 2010 13:28
On 6/27/2010 3:20 PM:

> how come my Eudora v6.2 is pointing me to my old Eudora v5.2
> attachment folder? How come installing 6.2 over 5.2
> didn't change the old folder name?

Installing Eudora neither creates nor changes any settings;
all versions 4.3 through 7.1 are compatible.

If you are updating anyway, why not to 7.1?

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From: John H Meyers on 28 Jun 2010 13:31
On 6/27/2010 3:20 PM:

> "Windows cannot find
> 'C:\Eudora5.2\attach\HotPeppers©PColwart.jpg'

> "Windows cannot find 'C:\Eudora5.2\attach\MASSIVE WIND SPILL IN
> WYOMING  by B. Compton 6-9-10.jpeg'.

UTF-8 (multi-byte) characters in file names?

I don't know whether or not UTF8ISO will help, but you could try it.

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From: jj on 28 Jun 2010 16:09
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:28:51 -0500, John H Meyers
<jhmeyers(a)nomail.invalid> wrote:

>On 6/27/2010 3:20 PM:
>
>> how come my Eudora v6.2 is pointing me to my old Eudora v5.2
>> attachment folder? How come installing 6.2 over 5.2
>> didn't change the old folder name?
>
>Installing Eudora neither creates nor changes any settings;
>all versions 4.3 through 7.1 are compatible.
>
>If you are updating anyway, why not to 7.1?

I tried 7.1 on my laptop. Didn't care for it.

From: jj on 28 Jun 2010 16:15
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:31:59 -0500, John H Meyers
<jhmeyers(a)nomail.invalid> wrote:

>On 6/27/2010 3:20 PM:
>
>> "Windows cannot find
>> 'C:\Eudora5.2\attach\HotPeppers�&copy;PColwart.jpg'
>
>> "Windows cannot find 'C:\Eudora5.2\attach\MASSIVE WIND SPILL IN
>> WYOMING&nbsp; by B. Compton 6-9-10.jpeg'.
>
>UTF-8 (multi-byte) characters in file names?
>
>I don't know whether or not UTF8ISO will help, but you could try it.

You mean opening the mail, going to Edit/Message Plug-Ins/UTF8 -> ISO?
That just disarmed the hot links.
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