In Mail I opened a Word Document attachment and then Saved it instead of Saving As. The Save placed it in what appears to be a temporary folder. But I suspect it is not a temporary folder. How do I access those folders to delete the saved file and other files I have accidentally saved to these system generated folders. I think there may be several.
MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.13
Dadzcanoe wrote:
In Mail I opened a Word Document attachment and then Saved it instead of Saving As. The Save placed it in what appears to be a temporary folder. But I suspect it is not a temporary folder. How do I access those folders to delete the saved file and other files I have accidentally saved to these system generated folders. I think there may be several.
Save it again and this time look at the path it is saving to.
View, save, or delete email attachments in Mail on Mac ..
I did that. But I can't find the folders using Finder. From the MS Word file Save As dialog I can trace a path to the Library in my User folder. The MS Word dialog displays a folder Mail Downloads, immediately below a Mail folder and above a file PDF Services and folder Preferences. The path from the Finder screen is my User folder, the folders containing Pictures, Documents, etc and I made Library visible. Drilling down through the library I can see the Mail and Maps folder and other folders not displayed in the Word Save as dialog, but no Mail Downloads.
Mail-How to Find/Delete Attached Word Documents Saved in Inaccessible system folders MacOS Catalina
