Sharing vcards with Windows users

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Ray Tracer

Hi. First time poster, here....

I tried to export a contact's vcard info for my Windows-using colleagues
using CONTACT > FORWARD AS VCARD and they all got a file with a .bin
extension that they were unable to use.

Since I've got my encoding set to AppleDouble (for any computer) and my
compression set to 'none', I'm at a loss.

Does anyone know where I can change the appropriate setting so that Windows
users will receive useable vcards?

Thanks!

Neal
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Hi Ray,
Hi. First time poster, here....
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Welcome then :)))
I tried to export a contact's vcard info for my Windows-using colleagues
using CONTACT > FORWARD AS VCARD and they all got a file with a .bin
extension that they were unable to use.
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Tell them to download Stuffit Expander for windows (free). The file is
just encoded.

http://www.aladdinsys.com/

Corentin
 
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Ray Tracer

Hi Ray,


Welcome then :)))


Tell them to download Stuffit Expander for windows (free). The file is
just encoded.

http://www.aladdinsys.com/

Corentin
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Hi, (^_^)

What I'm wondering is why it was so encoded and whether or not this
"feature" can be turned off. Immediately upon installation of Entourage I
made certain that my encoding pref was set to AppleDouble and compression to
'none' and nothing else I've ever sent via Entourage has ever ended up
compressed into a Stuffit archive.

Surely there's a way to send a vcard so that it isn't encoded in this
manner, isn't there? I hope?

Thanks!

Neal
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Ray Tracer said:
Hi, (^_^)

What I'm wondering is why it was so encoded and whether or not this
"feature" can be turned off. Immediately upon installation of Entourage I
made certain that my encoding pref was set to AppleDouble and compression to
'none' and nothing else I've ever sent via Entourage has ever ended up
compressed into a Stuffit archive.

Surely there's a way to send a vcard so that it isn't encoded in this
manner, isn't there? I hope?
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Well, AppleDouble will encode the file. What you'd probably need is some
form of encoding used by windows. What you want is to send the data as
Raw but that usually doesn't do great. Try selecting MIME/Base64
instead.




Corentin
 
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Ray Tracer

Well, AppleDouble will encode the file. What you'd probably need is some
form of encoding used by windows. What you want is to send the data as
Raw but that usually doesn't do great. Try selecting MIME/Base64
instead.




Corentin
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Thanks!

Neal
 
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