-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Application Octet stream
- From: RMB White <roguer@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:21:50 +1300
GMan!!,
Thank you for weighing in with seigneurial sagacity. This problem has
been annoying me for over a year but rather than ask the dumbest
question, I have been trying to sort it out by myself.
The attachments and/or inline pictures (moving and/or still) come from
different friends or acquaintances so I don't think THEY are ALL
turkeys, and therefore it must be ME or settings on MY laptop.
I am using Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 with Firefox 3.0.5 as browser, and
there are three variations of the problem
1. an attachment with NO extension which I double click and gives "You
have chosen to open <name of file> which is a application/octet-stream
from mailbox://. What should Thunderbird do with this? Open with
(Browse) or Save to Disc "
I save to Desktop, where I double click and get "Choose the program you
want to open this file <Browse>"
I have tried Thunderbird/Firefox/Irfanview/WMV/PowerPoint/Nero Photosnap
viewer/Windows Picture and fax viewer, ALL without success.
2. Some emails I receive have inline pictures and when I try to forward
these to other friends, my Sent box shows the message as having gone
thru but WITHOUT the pictures
3. Others with inline pictures which I try to forward, go thru with a
border round where the picture(s) should be and have
a) NO picture but tiny red diamond in the top R corner of each
border, OR
b) NO pictures but the border where each picture SHOULD be is picked
out in pecked red line(s)
I can send you privately examples of the above if you wish ( and if it
would not be a nuisance)
Perhaps I should sell my computer and take up rug-making??
Roger W
,
On 7/01/2009 10:57 a.m., Gman wrote:
> As a general rule, files that are found as "application/octet-stream" should
> have an extension that tells Windows what program can be used to open them,
> once the attached file has been saved to your hard drive. If there is no
> extension, it'll take some investigating to figure out what kind of file it
> truly is. If you're getting a number of these, it sounds like someone
> doesn't quite have the hang of attaching files to their emails and they
> should be educated in how to create proper attachments.
>
> What email program do you use, Roger?
>
> Happy Holidays,
> Gman
>
>
>
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