"...not a valid Web Archive."

Hi,
This is what I got two times today when different friends sent me
attachments that I tried to open.
What does it mean, and what can I do to get these attachments opened?
Thanks,
John

No idea. What type of attachments are they? Do you have a program
installed that will open files of that type? You don't provide enough
information to begin to try and help. Sorry.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
Please reply only to newsgroup.


"john mumby" wrote in message
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Hi,
This is what I got two times today when different friends sent me
attachments that I tried to open.
What does it mean, and what can I do to get these attachments opened?
Thanks,
John

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
No idea. What type of attachments are they? Do you have a program
installed that will open files of that type? You don't provide enough
information to begin to try and help. Sorry.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
Please reply only to newsgroup.
Hi Jim,
Sorry, I can't answer your questions. All I know is that I can get two
messages from the same friend and be able to open one attachment and not the
other. This has been going on ever since I got my new Dell computer 6
months ago. The message always starts with the title of the attachment and
finishes with the above quote. It is very frustrating.
John

That suggests the message may be sent using Outlook (not Express) and using
Outlook's RTF format which is unreadable by Outlook Express. See this
article for more info, and return the mail to your correspondent and ask
them to please send it to you again using either Plain Text or HTML and not
RTF which is intended only for intranet (corporate) use.

OLEXP: Cannot View Embedded Objects .rtf, .etf, .dat Attachments (Q166439):
http://support.microsoft.com/directo...;EN-US;q166439

This link has some technical info about TNEF attachments:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...kbone_767n.asp
--
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
Please reply only to newsgroup.




"john mumby" wrote in message
...

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
No idea. What type of attachments are they? Do you have a program
installed that will open files of that type? You don't provide enough
information to begin to try and help. Sorry.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
Please reply only to newsgroup.
Hi Jim,
Sorry, I can't answer your questions. All I know is that I can get two
messages from the same friend and be able to open one attachment and not
the
other. This has been going on ever since I got my new Dell computer 6
months ago. The message always starts with the title of the attachment and
finishes with the above quote. It is very frustrating.
John

See the Identifying Attachment File Types and Setting File Associations section of
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...e.htm#identify

Is your friend perhaps using a Mac? The AppleDouble attachment format sends 2 attachments
for each file. The first is a control file only usable by another Macintosh, the send is
the real file. If that's the case, just ignore the file that won't open. For more
information, see the Macintosh section of the above tutorial.


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"john mumby" wrote in message
...

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
No idea. What type of attachments are they? Do you have a program
installed that will open files of that type? You don't provide enough
information to begin to try and help. Sorry.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
Please reply only to newsgroup.
Hi Jim,
Sorry, I can't answer your questions. All I know is that I can get two
messages from the same friend and be able to open one attachment and not the
other. This has been going on ever since I got my new Dell computer 6
months ago. The message always starts with the title of the attachment and
finishes with the above quote. It is very frustrating.
John

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
See the Identifying Attachment File Types and Setting File Associations
section of
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...e.htm#identify

Is your friend perhaps using a Mac? The AppleDouble attachment format
sends 2 attachments
for each file. The first is a control file only usable by another
Macintosh, the send is
the real file. If that's the case, just ignore the file that won't open.
For more
information, see the Macintosh section of the above tutorial.


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"john mumby" wrote in message
...

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
No idea. What type of attachments are they? Do you have a program
installed that will open files of that type? You don't provide enough
information to begin to try and help. Sorry.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
Please reply only to newsgroup.
Hi Jim,
Sorry, I can't answer your questions. All I know is that I can get two
messages from the same friend and be able to open one attachment and not
the
other. This has been going on ever since I got my new Dell computer 6
months ago. The message always starts with the title of the attachment
and
finishes with the above quote. It is very frustrating.
John

Hi Michael,
No, my friends have PC's. I only get one attachment, so I guess Jim is
right when he said that I don't have a program to read the RTF. Thanks
again for responding to my email, Jim and Michael,
John

Hi John,

One program to try is WordPad. Microsoft offers a free viewer for some apps,
such as Word. You might be able to open (view only) the attachment.

--
Tim K.
aka Kuay Tim
MVP - (IE/OE)
Lynnwood, WA
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"john mumby" wrote in message
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Hi Michael,
No, my friends have PC's. I only get one attachment, so I guess Jim is
right when he said that I don't have a program to read the RTF. Thanks
again for responding to my email, Jim and Michael,
John