[Katla]

A friend of mine is a new Mac user, and he's sent me an attachment of a 30-second presentation he made for a class. As I understand it, it's video and audio, yet the attachment is only 21kb. I'm a PC user, and have Quicktime on my machine, but I can't play it. 21kb seems impossibly small for a 30 second clip, yet he is adamant that he has sent it correctly and the .mov file size is correct. So, my question is, is my friend a retard, as I suspect, or are Macs that good with compression?

Thank you for any replies.

[bearaK]

1. Send the attachment back to him, and see if he can play it.

2. He may have his email encoding set incorrectly. I believe MIME encoding works best. not macbinary.

3. sometimes there are two files that show up on the wins machine: the data fork and the resource fork. you may have gotten the resource fork (but they are usually somewhat smaller than 21 kb). If you get two files, choose the larger one, and ignore the other.

- b