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HOW TO DISABLE INLINE ATTACHMENTS IN MAIL.APP By default, the Mail application on your Mac displays image attachments inline with the text in the email message. This can be convenient when sending or receiving the occasional message with images that need explanations, as shown below. However, people who frequently send. Aug 25, 2011 Mail.app by default displays images inline, and most email clients won’t recognize them as attachments. If you right click (or ctrl click with a one button mouse) on the image you can select to view the image as icon, which makes it behave like a normal attachment. One of the longest-standing complaints I see about Apple’s Mail app is that it places any images you drag into an email as inline images (which means the image appears in the email wherever you actually drag & dropped it) instead of as a standard attachment (which appears as an icon at the bottom of the email regardless of where you drag & drop it).
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Great news; good tip. Thanks! That was a good move on Apple's part.
Great. Now if we only had an option to have all attachments display as an icon as well without the need of 3rd party extras.
Is there a filetype for which control/right-clicking and selecting 'View as Icon' doesn't work?
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It's not that it doesn't work.
It's that you have to do it for _every_ attachment you insert.
I'd rather the default be that it shows as an icon and then i can view inline if I want.
It's that you have to do it for _every_ attachment you insert.
I'd rather the default be that it shows as an icon and then i can view inline if I want.
Also, try dragging the icon to somewhere else in the message - it'll snap back to being inline :(
AND, it doesn't arrive as an icon at the other end anyway, even if you do have it display as one. Mail.app really is quite stupid in this regard - try attaching a photo and a single page pdf, then choosing medium or small for the photo size - the pdf will resize as well! Idiotic!
Also, try printing an e-mail with attachments (not just pictures). There's no way to stop it printing the attachment as well as the body, and what's worse, the body will often re-size to match the attachment size, and be totally unreadable.
The number of Windows users I get complaining that they can't open the pictures I send is ridiculous. Why on earth they can't just be sent as simple attachments is beyond me.
Mark
AND, it doesn't arrive as an icon at the other end anyway, even if you do have it display as one. Mail.app really is quite stupid in this regard - try attaching a photo and a single page pdf, then choosing medium or small for the photo size - the pdf will resize as well! Idiotic!
Also, try printing an e-mail with attachments (not just pictures). There's no way to stop it printing the attachment as well as the body, and what's worse, the body will often re-size to match the attachment size, and be totally unreadable.
The number of Windows users I get complaining that they can't open the pictures I send is ridiculous. Why on earth they can't just be sent as simple attachments is beyond me.
Mark
For your issue with Windows users, do you have 'Always Send Windows-Friendly Attachments' checked in the same Edit->Attachments menu? I'm running 10.5, but IIRC, it's available in 10.4 as well..and 10.3 and earlier was too long ago for my feeble memory.
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I do thanks, yes.
I think the issue isn't so much that the Windows users can't open the attachments, it's that because they appear inline (and this hint still puts them inline - just inline at the end of the message), they try double clicking on them, and nothing happens.
OK, so they're stupid Windows users of course, but given that most people are Windows users, why can't Mail have an option to send attachments the way virtually every other e-mail client does?
Plus, for pictures you don't want actually inline in the body, or for other documents like pdf's, it's so much cleaner to have icons attached than images.
Mark
I think the issue isn't so much that the Windows users can't open the attachments, it's that because they appear inline (and this hint still puts them inline - just inline at the end of the message), they try double clicking on them, and nothing happens.
OK, so they're stupid Windows users of course, but given that most people are Windows users, why can't Mail have an option to send attachments the way virtually every other e-mail client does?
Plus, for pictures you don't want actually inline in the body, or for other documents like pdf's, it's so much cleaner to have icons attached than images.
Mark
Actually, the 'Windows friendly' option still often results in photos that appear inline and don't appear as attachments. https://sitealien.weebly.com/download-dji-app-for-mac.html. The answer I've found is to make sure the message is sent as plain text rather than rich text.
True, but that in turn destroys any formatting I've included (no, I don't want to start an argument re plain text vs. rich text/HTML in e-mails!) and need to retain.
Another workaround is to zip up the attachments before sending, but the real solution is for Apple to get it right.
Mark
Another workaround is to zip up the attachments before sending, but the real solution is for Apple to get it right.
Mark
Actually, you can force it to always use icons for attachments with this Terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes
Got it through the blog below, much better for my work email now
http://micahgilman.com/play/disable-mac-mailapp-inline-image-attachments/
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes
Got it through the blog below, much better for my work email now
http://micahgilman.com/play/disable-mac-mailapp-inline-image-attachments/
But now, I can't see the things I've attached. (Unless I'm missing something…)
Cool. I really need this hint. thanx
Obvious but an awesome hint. I didn't see until I saw this hint. Thank you!
Found a small bug with this. With this selection chosen, you cannot attach vCards to a message. I wonder if there are other file types that don't work too.. Keyboard mapper software mac os. Following apps need root permission mac.
yea but then how do I see my list of attachments?????????????????????????
http://forums.macworld.com/thread/96377
'Apparently if you try to attach a file when the 'always insert attachments at end of message' setting is activated, and there is not text in the body of the message, it doesn't work. I have filed a bug report with Apple.'
'Apparently if you try to attach a file when the 'always insert attachments at end of message' setting is activated, and there is not text in the body of the message, it doesn't work. I have filed a bug report with Apple.'
My gut reaction is that it's Windows/Outlook that needs looking at.
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I've had a number of Outlook issues over the years (attachments not showing, attachments showing when there's no attachment, certain HTML emails not printing) and these have all been down to any combination of Outlook, Internet Explorer, .dlls needing to be re-registered and registry entries that have been deleted by removing software.
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Have a quick look at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954684 to see if this applies in your case.