View full file names of mail attachment titles in MAIL application (Apple)

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View full file names of mail attachment titles in MAIL application (Apple)

I often get many attachments sent to me and when I am looking through emails for some reason all attachments show up as an ICON with a shortened version of the name of the file. It is always just the first 10 or so characters of the title and the last 3, which is usually the (.gif, .pdf, etc...)
A lot of what I get usually has the similar titles and only seeing the first few characters is not making things easy for me to find exactly what I am looking for.

Is there a way to view the full file name within the mail and within the application without having to open each file up each time in the APPLE MAIL application?
Maybe there's a way to show all attachments as a list with a smaller icon?
Anything that'll let me view the full title of all attachments would help.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Message was edited by: KennyMac212

MacBook Pro and others, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Oct 25, 2009 7:24 PM

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Answer 1

Chunger

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Nov 12, 2009 7:05 AM in response to KennyMac212

I agree it is frustrating and literally just sent the wrong attachment to a customer because I was trying to live with the truncated filename system. I did find this nifty app called Mail Iconizer (http://lokiware.info/Mail-Attachments-Iconizer). It's pretty neat as it lets you control how attachments are viewed as well as pdfs and images (based on size). It's a free unlimited trial and $15 if you want to register so it's pretty inexpensive.

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Barney-15E

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Oct 25, 2009 7:34 PM in response to KennyMac212

If you hover over the icon, it will show the full name in the popup text.

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KennyMac212 Author

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Oct 26, 2009 7:52 PM in response to Barney-15E

Barney-15E,
Thanks. This is helpful but is a little time consuming. I'm guessing there is no other way to quickly scan the file names within the Mail application itself? A shame, I always thought that Apple made things that made life so much easier. I can't be the only one who sees this as a flaw in their Mail application interface. Oh well, I guess they can't always be on top of their game.
Thanks again.

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