Attachment too big

[proclone]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Entourage unsuccessfully keep sending a msg with attachment too big. Please advise how to stop it or to make the attachment size smaller?

 

[Michel Bintener]

When starting Entourage, hold down the Shift button. This will disable any
schedules set to run on start-up. You can then delete the message in your
outbox.

Entourage can compress your attachments in ZIP format; to get it to do that,
click on the button below the Attachments section of a new email section and
choose the appropriate option. Note that ZIP encoding only helps with some
types of files; if you tend to send large pictures or multimedia files, you
will see little to no reduction as far as the file size is concerned.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Entourage unsuccessfully keep sending a msg with attachment too big. Please
advise how to stop it or to make the attachment size smaller?

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)

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[degas1900]

Other than zipping an attachment, is it possible to reduce the size of a photo attachment (like MS Outlook)?

 

[Diane Ross]

Other than zipping an attachment, is it possible to reduce the size of a photo
attachment (like MS Outlook)?

In iPhoto you can select to reduce the photo before emailing. Also there are
several free and shareware applications that do this as well.

You can control which e-mail application iPhoto uses from the General tab of
the Preferences pane under the iPhoto menu. The icon of the selected
application will appear for Email in the tool bar at the bottom of the
iPhoto window.

Select the photo and click on the purple E to email the photo. A window pops
up allowing you to select size. Click "Compose". A new email will open in
Entourage with the photo attached.

In Entourage 2008, select the new Toolbox and click on the right icon,
Object Palette. Select the camera tab. This puts you into iPhoto. It does
not give any options to reduce photos. As a comparison, email from iPhoto on
medium produced an attachment of 56.98 KB. The same photo dragged in from
the Object Palette was 1.13 MB.

--
Diane
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[Michel Bintener]

Not in Entourage, I'm afraid. Other mail applications, such as Apple Mail,
allow you to do this, but Entourage doesn't. Instead, you will have to
resize the photo in another application (such as Preview) before you can
pass it on to Entourage.

Other than zipping an attachment, is it possible to reduce the size of a photo
attachment (like MS Outlook)?

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)

*** Please always reply to the newsgroup. ***

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

In Entourage 2008, select the new Toolbox and click on the right icon,
Object Palette. Select the camera tab. This puts you into iPhoto. It does
not give any options to reduce photos. As a comparison, email from iPhoto on
medium produced an attachment of 56.98 KB. The same photo dragged in from
the Object Palette was 1.13 MB.

You can reduce photos in this palette if you click the Toolbox Settings
button in the upper right corner and adjust the Photo Insertion Size
there. You don't have granular control but you can effectively reduce
photos this way.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

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[Ed Kimball]

Other than zipping an attachment, is it possible to reduce the size of a photo
attachment (like MS Outlook)?

ZIPping will not significantly reduce the size of a JPEG (photo) file, since
JPEG already involves compression. You must resize the photo as described in
the other responses to your message.

 

[Diane Ross]

You can reduce photos in this palette if you click the Toolbox Settings
button in the upper right corner and adjust the Photo Insertion Size
there. You don't have granular control but you can effectively reduce
photos this way.

Thanks Bill, I'll update that info.

--
Diane
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
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Twitter: follow <http://twitter.com/entouragehelp>