Just ran into something "exciting" while using gmail via Safari to send an attachment. I exported Cyndie's resume to word and PDF to send at work. It sent fine. But sending the native pages file caused gmail to just basically hang. With Firefox or Safari.
At first I thought it was because the filename had spaces, so I renamed it to the same name as the exported files and it still hung.
So doing a bit of digging, iWork Pages files are actually bundles...For the unfamiliar, bundles are a cool concept in Mac OSX that (generally) seamlessly make a directory look like a file. Generally.
This is an exception. Gmail is probably expecting a single file, not a directory full of files. Bundles are nearly transparent and make life grand for the most part, but here's a pain point with them I hadn't noticed before.
So the fix is to zip it up first, then send it. That'll turn it into a single file so it will get emailed properly. I didn't expect "Pages Publications" to be a bundle, so it was a bit surprising, but I guess that's how good the abstraction normally is.
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