Need a computer geek

[studemax]

Is anyone else having trouble sending .odt files written in Open Office via Live Mail?
In the last 2 weeks, if I attach these files to my emails - some of them are deleted after sent, and some open in hypertext (correct vernacular?).
It doesn't happen all the time, either - and no Acrobat, .jpeg, or pictures files are affected.

This is really messing me up, as I edit 2 different newsletters for 2 different car clubs and my members have complained about missing files.
Any help?

[Monster]

Try saving them as an .rtf or .pdf and try sending those ?

[studemax]

No yet, but I'll try it later and let you know.

[Barry Donovan]

zip it.. or if unix mastery gets confused on that, try 7 zip.. the .tar.gz. crazy stuff of ..
nevermind.

[squirrel]

if you are sending out newsletters, yeah, save them as a .pdf

I would expect problems with sending an Open Office file over a Microsoft mail service but then, I'm a computer pessimist

[studemax]

Try saving them as an .rtf or .pdf and try sending those ?

Saved as an .rtf file - looks good, sent it - deleted. Shows the "broken" symbol.

And apparently I do not have a method to save as a .pdf file... which is unfortunate. I can read a .pdf file.....

[Russell]

They don't like us to send access files at work, so we rename the file by removing the "." Email then the receiver renames the file with the "." Everyone is happy

Disclaimer: I am not a computer geek, I am the same as the average driver who thinks cars are an appliance.

[studemax]

I am the same as the average driver who thinks cars are an appliance.

Hopefully, YOU don't think of cars as an appliance.

[studemax]

Try saving them as an .rtf or .pdf and try sending those ?

OK, sir - I figured out how to export my odt files as a pdf file....
They read great, but my email is STILL deleting them when I send them.

So this is a Windows Live problem?

[Russell]

Hopefully, YOU don't think of cars as an appliance.

Was not clear, I think of computers as an appliance.

[studemax]

Any more ideas for me before I haul back and kill it?

[squirrel]

get a gmail account?

[Beagle]

OK, sir - I figured out how to export my odt files as a pdf file....
They read great, but my email is STILL deleting them when I send them.

So this is a Windows Live problem?

may be antivirus. We used to have to password protect zip files to send certain types of files to each other at work. The AV kept deleting attachments.

You password protect a zip file so the AV can't open it and see what's in there. A standard zip file it can open and read... might be worth a try.

[studemax]

get a gmail account?

Nice try. I have a GMail account, and it screws up on there, too.

[studemax]

may be antivirus. We used to have to password protect zip files to send certain types of files to each other at work. The AV kept deleting attachments.

You password protect a zip file so the AV can't open it and see what's in there. A standard zip file it can open and read... might be worth a try.

Don't know much about zipfiles, but wouldn't everyone I send a file to have to have the password?