Screenshot opens in Mail instead of saving the file to desktop

safetouch7 wrote:

Since last month, whenever I take a screenshot using command-shift-4, my Mac has suddenly decided all by itself to open the screenshot inside of a new Mail message instead of as a .png file on my desktop, as it used to do prior to last month.

I have no idea why it is doing that and can't find how to revert it to just saving the screenshot.

Even when I do want to mail a screenshot, I prefer to rename the file first and file a copy in my documents; not just have it as a Mail attachment.

This is on a 2023 (late 2022 model) 16" MacBook Pro running Sonoma 14.2.

Anyone have any ideas how/where to change this setting?

Make changes to Options see Shift Command 5

Once you have those options set to meet your needs— then Shift Command 4 and shift Command 3

will adhere to those settings

for glitches quit Mail.app and test, relaunch Mail and test again your screenshots