My E Fax does not work and when I down load a Mac Version from E Fax it tells me that Powerbook applications are not compatible any more. I suspect that EFax is not ready for Lion. Does anyone else have this problem ??
Dan
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), Processor 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
Lion does not support any PPC applications. They ran under Rosetta in Snow Leopard and that is no longer part of the OS. I'm afraid you'll have to look for a different fax application.
Just by the way, it's a bad idea to put your email address in your posts. Web crawling bots go looking for such and harvest them for spam targets, among other things. I've notified the Apple Support Communities moderators asking them to remove it, but it may be after hours for them right now.
See my post one page before ... 😉
ah, yes, thanks!
Well, THAT is pretty brilliant. Going to download now. Never even realized they had an app. SWEET! Thank you!
Tech support switched me to a tiff file. I have a free account. It was all done with email to their customer service. Just go to website and send them an email requesting the change. Very customer friendly!
It would be nice if they did release the patch for Lion however.
I was able to get eFax Messenger to run on Lion. I use Crossover Games (a $60 commercial product) to run it. When I click on a .efx attachment in Mail.app, it opens up exactly as expected. Crossover is a derivative of the free Windows emulator Wine, so I suspect eFax Messenger could be made to run under Wine as well.
The one trick to installing eFax Messenger was that the process would hang just before installation was complete. At that point I had to exit eFax Messenger, launch the Task Manager and kill J2GPlus.exe and J2GTray.exe processes. Once they exited, the Crossover installer would realize that eFax Messenger installation was complete and would finish the process of registering the application with OS X.
(For me, neither switching to another online fax service, nor using the web interface, nor switching eFax to send TIFF files solves the problem. I have old faxes in my archived email, and as far as I can tell, none of those solutions lets me view those old faxes.)
It took me awhile to work through this, but I figured it out.
1. Go to the efax website.
2. Open your fax in your inbox through the website.
3. Copy each page individualy as an image and paste them into a page of a Word or Pages doc with no margins.
4. Resize each image to be 8.5" wide and 11' tall.
5. Save as a PDF or whatever filetype you want.
Takes a little longer, but it beats giving out a new fax number for the 3 fax messages I receive a year.
GraphicConverter (and other image editing software?) will open the .jfx files just fine. Preview.app will open them if you change their name to .tif but they are streatched.
I realize this post is a bit old, but since eFax still hasn't updated the app, I thought I would offer another option.
As others have noted, you can use the eFax iOS app to email the document to yourself. You can also use it to open/save the document in Dropbox or Google Drive directly in PDF format. Saves you the step of converting a .tiff.
Really absurd that eFax hasn't bothered to update the app yet...
Using E Fax with OSX Lion. HELP
