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Mail Attachments - how do I get attachments to be "attachments" vs part of the message? Whenever I add attachments they become part of the message and can not be saved or opened separately on a pc.

Help!! Whenever I send an attachment via Mail (Mac OS X Lion) it becomes part of the message and can not be opened or saved separately with a PC. How do I get the attachments to be "true attachments"?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Feb 19, 2012 7:38 AM

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Posted on Feb 19, 2012 9:09 AM

Whenever I send an attachment via Mail (Mac OS X Lion) it becomes part of the message and can not be opened or saved separately with a PC.

That's incorrrect. Anything you attach to a message is a "true attachment", but what your recipient's mail client does with it is not under your control. If they're using Outlook, it treats things as embedded in the message. So, if you're sending images, you need to put them all in a folder and create a .zip archive and attach that instead. You can also do the same if their email client is treating documents such as text files, .doc or even PDF files this same way.

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Feb 19, 2012 9:09 AM in response to Jackpurcell

Whenever I send an attachment via Mail (Mac OS X Lion) it becomes part of the message and can not be opened or saved separately with a PC.

That's incorrrect. Anything you attach to a message is a "true attachment", but what your recipient's mail client does with it is not under your control. If they're using Outlook, it treats things as embedded in the message. So, if you're sending images, you need to put them all in a folder and create a .zip archive and attach that instead. You can also do the same if their email client is treating documents such as text files, .doc or even PDF files this same way.

Feb 19, 2012 4:29 PM in response to Jackpurcell

Jackpurcell wrote:


Whenever I send an attachment via Mail (Mac OS X Lion) it becomes part of the message

No such thing. It's impossible to send anything other than text as anything else but an attachment. The protocol doesn't allow it, so that goes for Mac, PC, or anything else that uses the mail protocol.

How do I get the attachments to be "true attachments"?

All attachments are "true attachments". The main problem is the PC user who doesn't know how to use his own e-mail client and can't be bothered to learn. There's very little you can do about it. However, look into the options given here (Mail > Edit > Attachments > "Always Send…" and "Always Insert…"). Toggling those options might help.


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Mar 15, 2013 9:19 AM in response to WZZZ

Can someone help me figure out how to do this? I have the same problem and this sounds like a fix but I'm the one dummy that can't seem to figure out how to do this... what is Terminal? and how do I past in the line below? I found applications, utilities but can't see how to do this.

Thanks!


Open Terminal in Applications>Utilities and paste this in. Then hit return.


defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing 1


To reverse the setting, change the 1 to a 0.

May 30, 2013 4:12 AM in response to mms1234

@mms1234


Terminal is an application that lives in the utilities folder in Applications usually used for some of the more scary techy stuff


Applications > Utilities


The icon looks like a monitor with >_ in the top left.


Double click to open


When you open it you are presented with a text like window. This is where you paste the line in green that starts defaults... and ends in 1. Paste can be done by either selecting Edit > Paste from the main menu or using the 'cmd v' keys as normal.


Hit return, then you're done.

Mail Attachments - how do I get attachments to be "attachments" vs part of the message? Whenever I add attachments they become part of the message and can not be saved or opened separately on a pc.

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