I have sent 2 zip files of photos to someone without a problem. The third and final zip file will not open so I deleted it and zipped it again and resent it, now it opens as a file on the other persons computer, so I keep deleting it and redoing it and the same thing keeps happening, how can I send it like the other 2 zip files where it will open and show the photos ?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.6
I would try manually changing the extension
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and then maybe try another program to zip files or look into the settings of the program you used if there are someting which could explain it altering the file extension
personally I use the free program double commander mostly rather than finder it has an pretty easy to use way of zipping files as one would copy files to other folders.
Try putting the files in a folder and zip the folder.
I've had terrible luck using .zip files on macOS & Linux. Several things can prevent the .zip files from being created properly, usually with file/path names & characters. I've had issues using the Finder to compress folders into .zip files (also when using the command line on both macOS & Linux). I now usually avoid using .zip and tend to use Disk Utility to create .dmg files of the parent folder containing the files if they will only be used on a Mac. If they will be shared with other non-Apple systems, I prefer to put them into a .tgz archive. I'm sure there is a good third party app out there which can create those archives using a graphical interface (I just use the command line to archive them).
How you share the archive files can also be a factor since I had some archives shared via SharePoint & One Drive not open after being downloaded from the cloud even on the same computer which created those archives. Happened to both .dmg, .zip, and .tgz files.
> it was just a Files
What do you mean by "Files"? How large were they? Did they have a suffix like .jpg? Maybe they were aliases to the original images?
The other person is trying to view it on a MacBook Pro same machine as mine and when I went back in and opened mine up again it was just a Files so it seems to have converted from the pictures to the Files on the second opening.
When transferred to the USB and opened it says J.peg howeverShouldn’t the photo just show up? It seems I have to click on it to see the picture. Shouldnt the photo just be there so I can bring the flash drive to cvs to print the photo?
everything is files also images
if the file extention is broken as if image2.jpg or jpeg is changed to as you write image2.j.peg then the system does not realize the file is an image file and should be shown as such.
If your ZIP files behave properly on your end, the natural assumption is the other person has the problem.
It show as a file not an actual picture shows up, you have to click it to see the photo
So how to correct this?
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