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Q: Why do the attachments I'm trying to send open in the body of my email rather than as an attachment icon?

I'm having trouble with attachments. When I select a document to attach, in either Word (doc) or pdf, sometimes the whole file opens in the body of the document, instead of just appearing as an attachment icon.  I can't figure out why this only happens sometimes...seems to happen more with documents I've scanned in and saved as either Word or PDF files - what might I be doing wrong?

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Apr 25, 2013 11:02 PM

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Q: Why do the attachments I'm trying to send open in the body of my email rather than as an attachment icon?

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  • by katorama,

    katorama katorama Nov 20, 2013 10:24 PM in response to Alberto Ravasio
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    Nov 20, 2013 10:24 PM in response to Alberto Ravasio

    Thank you for the clarification.

  • by brianbud,

    brianbud brianbud Nov 25, 2013 6:04 AM in response to katorama
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    Nov 25, 2013 6:04 AM in response to katorama

    I have read all of the contributions with interest and the solutions given are useful.

     

    However, just in case this has not occurred to some users, let me suggest a possibly simpler solution for personal viewing which is instantly reversible.

     

    Whenever you want to view an email you have written with enclosures, but do not want to see them, simply click in the email and select all (command+A). Right click and choose view as icons. This will change ALL attachments to icons for your viewing.

     

    If you want to change them ALL back, select all (commmand+A). Right click and select View in Place.

     

    As others have already pointed out, this only alters how you view what you have sent.

  • by Doug1803,

    Doug1803 Doug1803 Nov 25, 2013 6:30 AM in response to katorama
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    Nov 25, 2013 6:30 AM in response to katorama

    Of course, the issue for most people is not how it looks on their machine but how it looks on the machine of the person it is sent to.

     

    Has anybody any experience of attachment tamer? See http://lokiware.info/Attachment-Tamer/Mavericks but note that there is not a fully operatinoal version for Mavericks yet.

  • by duncal,

    duncal duncal Nov 30, 2013 7:16 AM in response to Doug1803
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    Nov 30, 2013 7:16 AM in response to Doug1803

    This no longer works for me since Mavericks has been released. 

  • by janefromac,

    janefromac janefromac Jan 18, 2014 11:27 PM in response to Alberto Ravasio
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    Jan 18, 2014 11:27 PM in response to Alberto Ravasio

    Thanks  - that worked well - have been trying to figure it out for ages

  • by Benson Boys,

    Benson Boys Benson Boys Feb 15, 2014 11:37 AM in response to Alberto Ravasio
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    Feb 15, 2014 11:37 AM in response to Alberto Ravasio

    Hi Alberto

     

    I've found your information really helpful regarding attachment icons.

     

    I have a MacBook Air 13" with the latest OS X and I'm using Apple Mail. I applied the relevant command in Terminal to show attachments as icons only which has worked for sending attachments. However, all attachments show as preview in my 'Sent Folder'. Is this correct?

     

    Thank you in advance.

  • by hedgehog1749,

    hedgehog1749 hedgehog1749 Apr 4, 2014 7:48 PM in response to brianbud
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    Apr 4, 2014 7:48 PM in response to brianbud

    Oh happy day!

     

    Brianbud's solution worked for me.  All of Alberto's failed. Sorry Alberto!

     

    I bought my first iMac when Snow Leopard was the OS.  After I had made some progress up the learning curve I loved it!

     

    I continued going with the upgrades, Apple's Mail, Pages and Numbers (my three most used programs after Safari) and now use Mavericks OS 10.9.2

     

    Mail has been weird since Mavericks: hangups, must use force quit 100% of the time, opens without uaccess to the tool bar and messages - must shut off the whole computer and reboot from scratch; Pages has lost a lot of basic functionality and is a huge pain to use; Numbers is now so cumbersome I am not adjusting well at all.

     

    I put on Parallels and run Windows 8.1 as well.  I use Quicken finacial software and they don't make a Mac version.

     

    After my rant about Mavericks being a huge step backward, Win 8.1 is leading the race back to a fubar'd (non-) functionality.

     

    Are Microsoft and Apple sacrificing us old desktop fogies in favour of tablets and iPhones and the like?  Or am I paranoid?  Is Linux an option?

     

    iMac early 2010 (I think)

    OS 10.9.2 

    Windows 8.1

    Parallels

    4  GB memory

    Intel core i3 processor

     

    Thanks to all who have helped.

  • by nancysnowboards,

    nancysnowboards nancysnowboards Apr 8, 2014 3:40 PM in response to Alberto Ravasio
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    Apr 8, 2014 3:40 PM in response to Alberto Ravasio

    Thank you SO MUCH Alberto.  Now I can quit right clicking on every email...

     

    nancy

  • by N10JOK,

    N10JOK N10JOK Apr 17, 2014 11:06 PM in response to gengail
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    Apr 17, 2014 11:06 PM in response to gengail

    Hi all.   I've discovered there is an even simpler solution.    When you attach the attachment and see it as an open doc in the body of the email, simply rt click on the attachment and select "View as Icon". Not yet tested how it appears to the receiver, which is the real dilemma with this!!

  • by neillalewis,

    neillalewis neillalewis Apr 18, 2014 1:37 AM in response to N10JOK
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    Apr 18, 2014 1:37 AM in response to N10JOK

    The problem is that, whatever you do at your end, the attachment still comes out in the body of the message at the other end.  I have received complaints about this from two clients, which I have aired here before, but nothing can be done unless you [pay for and] load Outlook or maybe there are others that I don't know about, but Outlook is superior to Mail in all respects.  I never thought I would recommend Microsoft. 

  • by Doug1803,

    Doug1803 Doug1803 Apr 18, 2014 1:41 AM in response to neillalewis
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    Apr 18, 2014 1:41 AM in response to neillalewis

    Hi all,

     

    3 options;

     

    1)     Install attachment tamer to work with apple mail

     

    2)     Install Postbox as your mail client ($9.99 after long trial period) - this is what I have done

     

    3)     do nothing but please quit moaning :-)

  • by Vignesh85,

    Vignesh85 Vignesh85 May 15, 2014 3:54 AM in response to Alberto Ravasio
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    May 15, 2014 3:54 AM in response to Alberto Ravasio

    I can confirm that it works with Mavericks. Thanks Alberto.

  • by martin from,

    martin from martin from May 23, 2014 7:11 AM in response to katorama
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    May 23, 2014 7:11 AM in response to katorama

    The glaringly obvious question perhaps is why Apple do not fix all of the problems that they have created in Mavericks Mail App? Why should any of us want to spend a lot of time fixing issues created by Apple and adjust settings all the time when the Mail App used to work in Snow Leopard, was compromised in Mountain Lion and now ruined in Mavericks?

  • by DrSteveL,

    DrSteveL DrSteveL Jul 18, 2014 10:54 AM in response to Alberto Ravasio
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    Jul 18, 2014 10:54 AM in response to Alberto Ravasio

    Thank you Alberto,    For taking the time to try and help "us apple seeds".   Your suggestion didn't work for me however,  I'm running "Mavercats" 10.9.4,  so that's probably why.   Have you heard of anything more concrete/current for me?   I'm mostly concerned (like the others) about how the e-mail is received (by Windows users), and not so much how it is displayed on my machine.   Thanx again.

  • by martin from,

    martin from martin from Jul 18, 2014 11:04 AM in response to DrSteveL
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    Jul 18, 2014 11:04 AM in response to DrSteveL

    Re What Windows users will get, I imagine that it is as an attachment as we used to get before Apple decided for us how we want anything. Just send something with an attachment to anyone you know who has a PC running Windows and ask them for feedback about whether they received it as an attachment?

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