Inline attachment viewing in Apple Mail

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Inline attachment viewing in Apple Mail

How to disable inline attachment viewing in Mail?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 12, 2020 6:55 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 12, 2020 7:09 AM in response to ckc74

ckc74 wrote:

How to disable inline attachment viewing in Mail?

You can see if Mail> Preferences> Viewing> unchecking Remote content does what you are asking...

Or quite Mail and From the terminal.app command line you can copy and paste:

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

Alternatively if these are attachments you are creating you can easily "compress" a file/folder by holding the Option key to open the contextual menu>Compress and attach the .zip file

Mail User Guide for Mac - Apple Support

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ckc74 Author

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Nov 12, 2020 7:04 AM in response to ckc74

To turn off the Inline Attachment Viewing in Mail (that is to view all the attachments as icons) use following Terminal code:

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

This terminal command DOES still work with Mac OS Catalina (10.15.7), but you must first give Terminal full access:

System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access

Then add Terminal.app. Once that is done, reopen Terminal and run the command.

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Inline attachment viewing in Apple Mail

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