I´m having trouble saving an pdf onto my desktop by dragging it from Apple Mail to the Finder. It will be converted to a .inetloc file. I known I could you "save as …" but I like to drag & drop and it worked before.
MacBook Pro (M1 Pro) running MacOS 12.1
MBP (14"), MacBook Pro 14″
What happens if you drag and drop from email an attachment other than a PDF?
DId this start with the Monterey upgrade?
Try booting to Safe Mode. That boot up takes minutes and clears caches and other things that may resolve your problem.
How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support
A lot of times just boot to Safe Mode followed by normal boot resolves problems.
I just dropped a PDF file from a mail message and dropped it in my Documents folder and it remailed a PDF.
When you Save As does it save as PDF?
What happens if you drag and drop from email an attachment other than a PDF?
DId this start with the Monterey upgrade?
Try booting to Safe Mode. That boot up takes minutes and clears caches and other things that may resolve your problem.
How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support
A lot of times just boot to Safe Mode followed by normal boot resolves problems.
I just dropped a PDF file from a mail message and dropped it in my Documents folder and it remailed a PDF.
When you Save As does it save as PDF?
Is that a physically attached PDF, or a link to a PDF on a remote server? In the latter case, when you drag and drop, you are not saving a PDF, but a .webloc file that contains the URL to that remote PDF. What happens when you right-click on that attachment and choose Save?
Thank you! It helped! "Save as" worked fine.
Monterey feels very buggy for me – this issue, finder quick look bug and so on.
Thank you! It's a physically attached PDF and yes Save as worked fine.
Dragging PDF from an e-mail to desktop becomes .inetloc file
