Whisper or Shout

March 26th, 2009 by Romelda

Are you running Mac OS X? Does This icon link look familiar? If yes, then you know how frustrating this little icon can be. You probably don’t know WHAT this icon means exactly, but you know FOR SURE, that whatever was supposed to be attached to your email from a friend is coming in to you email in this crazy file type. Plus, you can NEVER open the darn file either right?

Well, here is a little info about what that is exactly, and why you can’t open it, and some blessed information for you so you CAN finally open these files.

What the heck is a TNEF file anyways? TNEF stands for: Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF) and it was introduced by Microsoft to package information for sending messages across the Internet. That’s about all the information you need to know about the actual file type, because what we do know is they are a pain in the butt, particularly if you are one of the cool new Mac converts and have pc-enabled friends of old. They try to send you cool pics, files etc., and you get nothing but frustrated because you keep getting attachments called winmail.dat and miss out on what everyone is emailing back and forth about.

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