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opening photos .exe
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.exe is a windows executable and you can not run it natively on OSX.
.exe is not a image format and a unnecessary complicated way to distribute photos.
Virus and malware links often come in the format of spam mail that says "look here! pictures of you! http://suspicious.adress.com" and lead to a .exe file, that contains viruses and not photos.
But well, if you got them on USB from a trusted source, your choices for accessing the photo's inside this .exe are:
a. Install windows on your Mac
b. Run a bottle through say, CrossOver
c. Run a virtual machne through VMWare or Parallels.
If you did not understand anything from the above steps, you are better off asking your source to redistribute these photos in a platform-independant format, like a zip folder.
.exe is not a image format and a unnecessary complicated way to distribute photos.
Virus and malware links often come in the format of spam mail that says "look here! pictures of you! http://suspicious.adress.com" and lead to a .exe file, that contains viruses and not photos.
But well, if you got them on USB from a trusted source, your choices for accessing the photo's inside this .exe are:
a. Install windows on your Mac
b. Run a bottle through say, CrossOver
c. Run a virtual machne through VMWare or Parallels.
If you did not understand anything from the above steps, you are better off asking your source to redistribute these photos in a platform-independant format, like a zip folder.
You might find this is a self extracting ZIP file, which the builtin OS X unarchiver might be smart enough to read (they're PKZIP files with an EXE header). You can try renaming the file to have a .zip extension and seeing if your archive tools can read it.
If it is a self-extracting archive, you can use StuffIt Expander. It's free and works I've used it myself for this very purpose.
