How to hyperlink a file in an entourage message

[kimovitch]

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

Hello,

How do you put an hyperlink to a file in an entourage message?

I'm one of the few mac users in my company, and everybody, when they refer to a file on a files server, put the hyperlink of the file in outlook. But I cannot do that in Entourge. for instance :

File//M:\IT\Projects\Plan.doc

Any solution?

 

[Diane Ross]

How do you put an hyperlink to a file in an entourage message?

"Easily open Windows UNC paths in Entourage using WinShortcutter"

<http://tinyurl.com/cw678m>

 

[kimovitch]

Thank you Diane for your message. My question was probably not clear enough. How do you put an hyperlink to a file in an entourage message which will be read through outlook and click by a windows user. So I would like to convert a mac link to a UNC path.

When I work on my mac, I would like to copy the path of a file (which is on windows network), and convert it in a UNC path that way a windows users can click on it. It looks to me that WinShortcutter does the opposite unfortuantely.

 

[Diane Ross]

When I work on my mac, I would like to copy the path of a file (which is on
windows network), and convert it in a UNC path that way a windows users can
click on it. It looks to me that WinShortcutter does the opposite
unfortuantely.

PathSnagger might help. Since I don't work in a cross platform environment
myself, I can't comment using real experience.

PathSnagger adds a Contextual Menu Item option to the Contextual Menu in the
Finder. Control-click a document, application, folder, mounted volume, zip
disk, anything, and easily copy the full path to that item directly to your
clipboard!

It offers Unix and HFS path options.

 

[kimovitch]

Thank again for your answer. PathSnagger unfortunately does only Unix and HFS path, I need a converter to translate a unix path in UNC path..

 

[Diane Ross]

ranslate a unix path in UNC path..

To get you started...

<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/160529>

<http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=397>

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

Thank you Diane for your message. My question was probably not clear
enough. How do you put an hyperlink to a file in an entourage message
which will be read through outlook and click by a windows user. So I
would like to convert a mac link to a UNC path.

If you enter a true UNC path such as:

\\server\share\folder\folder

then most Windows E-mail clients will probably recognize it as such and
create the hyperlink. It's not a recognizable hyperlink in the Mac
world, so it won't be clickable on a Mac. I suggest you compose your
messages in both HTML and plain text to verify which works best in your
environment.

When I work on my mac, I would like to copy the path of a file (which
is on windows network), and convert it in a UNC path that way a
windows users can click on it. It looks to me that WinShortcutter
does the opposite unfortuantely.

Paths aren't *always* translatable from one to another and not all path
styles are recognized on all platforms.

A Mac AFP path looks like:

afp://server.domain.com/share

An Mac SMB path looks like:

smb://server.domain.com/share

A Windows UNC path looks like:

\\server.domain.com\share

Use these as guides for creating the appropriate paths for your recipients.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

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[kimovitch]

Thank you Bill,

I will try to compose myself the link. It looks the most efficient way. A remaining question, how do you set "space caracter" do you have to put a symbole like "%"?

 

[Adam Bailey]

I will try to compose myself the link. It looks the most efficient way. A
remaining question, how do you set "space caracter" do you have to put a
symbole like "%"?

%20 is the space character.