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Q. I sometimes receive e-mail messages with a “winmail.dat” file attached that I cannot open. Why does this happen, and what can I do to fix it? A. The winmail.dat file usually appears because various ...

Spotlight: Choking on Finder.DAT files? We've received scattered reports from readers indicating that Mac OS X 10.4.x's Spotlight may have problems indexing and searching for Finder.DAT files -- data ...

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A USB drive can support several different types of file formats, depending on your needs. Here's what those formats mean and ...

Letter Opener converts winmail.dat attachments on the fly, so you can actually see and use the attachments the sender intended you to have. [Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s ...