how to attach files in email without embedding them

I spoke to apple care and they said after I attach the file to right click on the embedded image and and then click on view as an attachment.

Try doing the same, but choose "View as icon" instead.

I haven\'t seen how a mac is easier to use than a pc wrote:

How can I attach a file to an email without embedding it.

Technically, you can't, at least if you are using SMTP to send the email. All except plain text attachments in emails using that standard are actually embedded in the message for transmission, separated by MIME tags that suggest how the receiving email client application (called "mail user agents" in the specs) should handle it.

The content-disposition tag tells the client app if a part was intended to be displayed inline (embedded) or as a separate attachment. Unfortunately, the majority of client apps do not fully follow those suggestions & make their own determination of what to display inline or as separate attachments.

So the best you can do is make sure the message as composed uses the appropriate content-disposition tag & hope that the receiving client app honors it. If you are using Apple's Mail.app try Don Archibald's suggestion, or putting all the attachments at the very end of your message (which may require not using a sig).

But this won't always work since the receiving app may ignore your efforts.

The only way I have found to make attachments as icons the default and guaranteed readable by PC and Mac users alike is to install the (paid for) Attachment Tamer plugin from Lokiware. Works perfectly - doing something that should be an option in Mail. You can get it from here:

http://lokiware.info/Attachment-Tamer

I think you can run it in a time-limited mode to test it before buying (I might be wrong about that as it's a long time ago that I installed it).