Re: appending .doc to save files

On 9/17/05 5:40 PM, "Helpful Harry" wrote:

> Some email applications don't actually open the original message's
> attachment and / or the editing application can't actually save over
> the top of the email application's version. This means when you
> supposedly save the document after making changes, you will later open
> the attachment to find all the changes have "disappeared".

Legions of Windows users have been caught by this.

Just by the way--Entourage handles this because it makes a copy of all
opened attachments in the Saved Attachments folder in MS User Data, so if
you make changes to the original doc, they get saved there. If you rename
them and save them elsewhere, Entourage deletes the copy when you Quit.
It's very nice and efficient.

Haven't a clue what Mail or any other Mac email app does.
>
> This means it's always best to either drag the attachment to the
> Desktop (or anywhere else on you hard drive), save the attachment from
> the email application, or open the attachment and then do a Save As
> from the editing application. Then edit this version and re-attach it
> to any reply message.

Still good practice, even with an app that saves them for you.

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