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Cannot open ZIP files in mail

Anyone else having trouble opening zip files in mail. It does not work on iPhone either - but that was not an issue since very rarely does one want to open a large document.

Any solutions out there ?

iPAD, iPhone OS 3.1.3

Posted on Apr 19, 2010 9:47 AM

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Apr 19, 2010 10:14 AM in response to dd85jose

Zips and other archived/compressed files won't work as expected on an iPad since you can't just preview/view the contents directly from the attachment currently like you can with quicktime-compatible or other common media formats. Basically you would need to be able to save the zip file to the finder and extract it, and view the contents from there. But since the iPad doesn't have anything like a user-accessible Finder, it's tricky to implement.

There may be third-party apps that deal with this eventually (or maybe even something from the upcoming 4.0 software, who knows), but it would probably be easier to just have people send you attachments that aren't zipped up for now.

Cannot open ZIP files in mail

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