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Opening .mht on mac.

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StephenCampbell

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I've been looking around online for the past hour for a solid way to open a .mht file on a mac, and I can't find anything. I need to open these files for University homework. Has anybody figured out a way to do it?

Thanks.
 
Do you know what kind of file it is suppose to be? I know that extension as a archived web page format. I have add-ons for Firefox tat let me save and open them. Opera can too depending on how it was saved. It's weird for a University to save anything to this file format though unless it's a different type of file.
 
The MHT file type is primarily associated with 'MHTML Document' by Microsoft Corporation. Archived Web Page. When you save a Web page as a Web archive in Internet Explorer, the Web page saves this information in Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension HTML (MHTML) format with a .MHT file extension. All relative links in the Web page are remapped and the embedded content is included in the .MHT file. The absolute references or hyperlinks on the Web page remain unchanged and the .MHT file is viewed using Internet Explorer.
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2 simple Google searches found information above & below:

File Juicer
Mac OSX Hints

PS: If you can get the information in .chm format then there a great free application that'll work perfectly on OS X.
 
Prom1 said:
2 simple Google searches found information above & below:

File Juicer
Mac OSX Hints

PS: If you can get the information in .chm format then there a great free application that'll work perfectly on OS X.
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I actually tried file juicer earlier today during my search, and it extracts all the files but I can't get it to open in any way that looks normal. There are a bunch of files, and I can't get them to all open together in a logical way the way I imagine they were supposed to be originally. How does it work after the extraction phase?
 
Just post it up and let someone with Internet Explorer open it and save it in a different format.
 
There are five such files that I'll need to access throughout the quarter. I guess I could upload them all if someone was willing to convert them into something else. Could I get Internet Explorer for mac?
 
I got the file to "open" with Firefox using my previously mentioned add-ons. Unfortunately, the page makes use of Internet Explorer conditional comments, making the page unviewable. It looks like the teacher put a PowerPoint presentation onto the page (saved as HTML from PowerPoint). It's very horrible actually. Inform the teacher you don't have IE and need them to distribute the PowerPoint as an actual ppt file. Mac has no IE that will help you.
 
Well, there are only five of these files that I'll need for this class throughout the quarter. Would someone be willing to convert them into something I could view if I uploaded them all to yousendit and posted the links? :)
 
StephenCampbell said:
Well, there are only five of these files that I'll need for this class throughout the quarter. Would someone be willing to convert them into something I could view if I uploaded them all to yousendit and posted the links? :)
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I'd recommend contacting a Windows user friend and have them save it as PDF (if the content is suitable for that). They might have to save off individual screen shots of the PPT though. If the school has a computer lab you can use you could do this yourself as well. I'd probably start with the teacher though as it could save you time.
 
Is it possible to bulk-convert all my .mht (MHTML) files into a format easily readable my any Mac?

Opera is certainly the easiest way of opening .mht in Mac ...

Opera > Settings > Preferences... > Advanced > Downloads > Disable "Hide file types opened with Opera" > Type "mht" > Select "application/mime, mim,mime,mht,mhtml,mbs". OK.

Forget unMHT for Firefox: it's total brain damage.
 
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