Autosave file is in Plain Text, can't open

I have my autosave folder on another computer at another location so I had my friend email me the autosave folder, only now I can't open them because they came over as plain text files. Is there a way to change them to fCP project files so I can open them in FCP?

I just tried emailing a working autosave file to myself from MAIL and it worked fine, came through as final cut pro project file, but then I tried it again through safari and if came through as Plain Text. The guy at the other end told me he sent it from MAIL though, unless he was confused. Is there some setting in mail that would need to be changed to not convert the autosave file to plain text.

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