Entourage 2004: Problems sending files from iPhoto -- update

On Monday we posted a couple of reader-submitted fixes for a problem where clicking the Mail button in iPhoto -- when the chosen email client is Microsoft Entourage 2004 -- results in a new message with an attachment of 0k called "Attachment ([document name].669," instead of the selected photo(s).

The first suggested fix was to use iPhoto Mailer Patcher, which adds support for other email clients but also seems to solve the problem with Entourage for some users.

The second fix was to open the iPhoto package itself and edit the actual AppleScript iPhoto uses to create a new Entourage email message. You can get to this script by control-clicking iPhoto in the Finder and then selecting "Show Package Contents" from the resulting contextual menu; in the resulting folder, navigate to Contents/Resources/Scripts and double-click the file Microsoft Entourage.scpt, which will open in Script Editor. However, note that the line to edit may be different than the one published Monday, depending on the version of iPhoto 4 you have installed.

For some users, you need to change

make new attachment at new_message with properties {file:(this_imagefile as alias)}

to

make new attachment at new_message with properties {file:(this_imagefile_path)}

For other users, the text is slightly different; you need to change:

make new attachment at new_message with properties {file:(this_imagefile_path as alias)}

to

make new attachment at new_message with properties {file:(this_imagefile_path)}

We've received a number of follow-up emails from readers who were previously experiencing this attachment problem; in all cases, one of these two procedures -- using iPhoto Mailer Patcher or editing the script -- fixed the problem for them.

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