Attention, Office 2008 & Eudora users:
While we wait for MS to reflect on the best laid plans of men and
mice, at least Eudora users can make sure that attached Microsoft
files are no longer assigned a deprecated filetype descriptor.
These instructions assume you remember how to use ResEdit, and also
that ResEdit requires Classic, and that Classic requires a slightly
older machine. If you have all that and are of brave disposition, here
goes:
1) Make sure Eudora is closed. Using ResEdit, open /Eudora Application
Folder/Eudora.app/Contents/MacOS/Eudora.
2) Once open in ResEdit, open the EuIM resource.This is where Eudora
stores the file type codes it assigns to attachments.
3) In the list that appears, open "Proprietary Stuff". (This includes
Microsoft files).
4) Starting at field No. 10, update "Type" entries to the current
filetype codes used by Microsoft (SLD8 for PowerPoint, W8BN for Word,
XLS8 for Excel).
5) Step by step:
Field 10: Change "Type" entry from SLD3 to SLD8 and "Ignore x-mac-type/
creator" to 1.
Field 11: Repeat above.
Field 14: Change "Type" entry from WDBN to W8BN and "Ignore x-mac-type/
creator" to 1.
Field 15: Repeat above.
Field 17: Change "Type" entry from XLS4 to XLS8 and "Ignore x-mac-type/
creator" to 1.
Field 18: Repeat above.
Field 19: Repeat above.
6) Before you finish, scroll back up to Field 11, place the cursor on
the box titled [11)*****] and choose "Insert new field..." from the
Resource menu. Make this an identical copy of Field 11 (copy and paste
from it as needed), except to change the "Type" entry from .ppt
to .pps. That will cover PowerPoint slide shows.
7) Nothing special needs to be done for other Microsoft filetypes,
such as TEXT, RTF or WXBN.
8) Done. Save your changes and restart your computer for good measure.
From now on, Microsoft files coming in as attachments to e-mail will
have the newer filetype codes assigned to them, thereby avoiding the
current issue with Office 2008 and deprecated filetype codes. This
will not fix older files already residing on your hard drive, but at
least will prevent further aggravation. If you have a twisted mind,
after making these changes e-mail older files to yourself to have
Eudora automatically batch-fix filetypes for you. :-D
No guarantees, except that it works as advertised at my end.
And sorry, I don't know how to fix other mail clients.
Patricio Mason
Santiago, Chile
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