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Bundle files into a single folder for email

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Caezar

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The other day, I had to send 30 pics to my niece by email. I tried to find a piece of freeware to compress and bundle the pics into one single file, but I could not find anything.

I ended up having to attach the 20 pics one by one into 3 separate emails, which is very tedious and dumb.

Is there a better way to bundle files into a file/folder that can be emailed through hotmail/yahoo/gmail? I do not care so much about the compression. What I need is simply to package all the files together.
 
Mac OS X has this capability built in.

Put all of the files/folders you want to send in a single folder.
Right click/control click on the folder, select "Create Archive of folders name".
Presto.
 
Just select all the files you want to send (in your case the pictures); Right Click when they are all selected: Create Archive

Unorthodox beat me to it!
 
Unorthodox said:
Mac OS X has this capability built in.

Put all of the files/folders you want to send in a single folder.
Right click/control click on the folder, select "Create Archive of folders name".
Presto.
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Thanks a million... I switched to the Mac almost two years ago and it never ceases to amaze me.
 
Archiving compresses the selected files/folders to the ZIP format. Is that what you mean? 🙂
 
The only problem is, many email servers are now set to destroy zip files. Or at least block them.
 
I wonder if changing the suffix to TXT or DOC and telling the recipient to change it back to ZIP would bypass this... I dunno. I've never had a problem with it.
 
mad jew said:
I wonder if changing the suffix to TXT or DOC and telling the recipient to change it back to ZIP would bypass this... I dunno. I've never had a problem with it.
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I would think that would do it, or just remove the extension all-together.
 
Yeah, at a guess, if the email server frowns upon ZIPs then it probably won't allow extensionless files either.
 
mad jew said:
I wonder if changing the suffix to TXT or DOC and telling the recipient to change it back to ZIP would bypass this... I dunno. I've never had a problem with it.
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todd2000 said:
I would think that would do it, or just remove the extension all-together.
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Changing the zip to .txt works fine as long as the person downloading specifies the change back to .zip. For some reason .doc doesn't work (at least not for me).
 
That's because doc is probably also blocked by many. That should work, it just means you have to have another savvy user on the other end. Also not always the case.
 
attach number files to email

I can never add "Numbers" files to my email, only excel (for mac). It says you may not add bundle files. Any suggestions? I tried to right click archive and the option does not appear. What am I doing wrong?
 
I have no problem attaching Numbers files to the Mac Mail (Numbers 09, Mail 4.5, OSX 10.6.7) myself. Are you using the standard Mac Mail client?

When I right click on a Numbers file, I select Compress and it zips it up just fine. Does compress appear as an option when you right click on the Numbers file? If so, that's the option you're looking for.
 
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