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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 ..
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
