Attachments appear as text

When I am sent an attachment that is a video or picture when I click on it "textedit" appears and all I receive is garbled text or "Movie cannot be opened". Why is this happening? The "Movie cannot be opened" has always appeared but since I installed Leopard I get the garbled text.

In most cases, the movie is labeled with a file extension, such as .wmv. The full file name would be: NewMovie.wmv.
If that's the type of file you're seeing, installing Flip4Mac may help: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx
~Lyssa

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I send many e-mails a day with word and pdf attachments to them, to clients. Two things I struggle with and hope to solve.
1- I use the Mac mail system. When I attach a document, sometimes only the icon shows, and sometimes the whole page shows. From reading other posts, it looks like if the attachment is only 1 page, the whole page shows on my screen. I DO NOT want that. I print my e-mails for my files and when the whole page shows, an e-mail that should be 1/2 a page turns into a 4-page e-mail. A waste of paper and space in my files. How do I make all the attachments appear as icons? I have tried right click, "show as icon" and that makes only the icon show on the screen, but when I print the e-mail, the entire page of 1-page attachments print (although smaller), making the e-mail way too long. HELP!
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This is easy enough to do on any individual message. I think the trick most people are looking for is how to make this a default on ALL messages.
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20130223000057486
From that link:
Turn off automatic attachment preview in Mail
Mail, by default, provides a preview of attachments in can read, such as graphics and PDF files. However, you can run a command in Terminal to turn this off. Run the following:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes
Quit Mail and relaunch it. When you view a message, all attachments will be shown as icons only.
To restore the original functionality, run this command:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool no
Found on StackExchange.
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/24569/turn-off-automatic-preview-in-app le-mail

Attachments show as text

It happened to me twice now that I got an email with attachments, I believe both times it was through my .mac account, which makes Mail painfully slow to begin with.
Anyway, it has this funky behavior of showing a message before the attachments are downloading, so you start seeing the attached content as it downloads, but if you switch to another message and then back to the message with attachments they end up being gone...it's all text.
In the last case it even "forgot" the sender's name and address in the header.
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Well, I guess that's called a bug, but I thought I post it here anyways...

My only reference to POP was to say that I do not receive many large attachments in my .mac account, and yes, I would NOT expect any problems with your POP accounts.
My statement about IMAP accounts was made because .mac accounts, set up as .mac type (you can use POP, but .mac is default when setting up) operate in the same way as IMAP accounts. IMAP access in Mail 2.0 is flawed, and with some IMAP servers, attachments, or at least large attachments, simply do not display, and we have found no setting or other change to correct.
I have not seen the same problem reported, previously, for a .mac account. I would like to know the number of messages in your .mac Inbox, and also what is the size reported for the messages where the attachments show as text?
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