If the file has an extension before you attach it, then it will have an
extension when it gets there. If the file has no extension on your
computer, it will be wrong everywhere (including your computer...)
But your problem is probably because you are sending the email encoded in
"AppleDouble" file format. When you do that, the Mac sends an old-fashioned
file format that shows up as two files, a "Resource Fork" and a "Data Fork".
The Resource Fork IS empty, on both Mac and Windows. The Mac operating
system hides the empty file, Windows should too, but if the recipient is
using an old version of Windows and they don't know what they are doing,
they will see both files.
The resource form file will appear at the top of the list, because its name
begins with a period and underscore. When they open that on Windows, it
will indeed be empty, because it was empty on the Mac too. If they scrolled
the list and opened the data fork file immediately below it, they would have
your document! But that would require thought and effort, something HR
Departments are not known for...
I do not know why Apple persists with this silly piece of history, because
Apple applications don't use the resource fork either, on a modern system.
If you look in your email system for "Send Windows-friendly attachments" and
check that, you will never have this problem again, on either Mac or
Windows, because every computer out there can read the single file that gets
sent.
Hope this helps
How can I include extensions, CyberTaz? I just used the attach function on
the email program.
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