Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Open an MHT file on a Mac

Hi all,
If any of you own a Mac, you might have hit the sticky issue of trying to open an MHT file!

The problem is that MHT files are Mime Encoded HTML files, which are specifically a Microsoft format.
IE opens these files just fine, and there are a few plugins for Chrome/FireFox that perport to open them too.

I haven't had any success with the plugins, and by default, Word (Office for Mac 2011) tries to open MHT files, but always fails...

Here is the answer:  Rename from .MHT to .EML.
Your default email client (Entourage or Outlook) will then open it as an email will all the formatting and graphics!

Hope that helps!