In mail, my attachments, both photos and documents appear in the body of the message. How can I get my attachments to appear as a separate attachment and not as part of the message. Thanks for your help, Karen.

It is possible using a Terminal command.

1. Close "Mail"

2. Open "Terminal"

3. Enter the following command:

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -boolean YES

4. Close Terminal and start Mail

5. Now all attachments are shown as symbols.

If you want to change it back enter in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -boolean NO

How an attachment is actually handled depends mostly upon how the recipient has their email client set.

However, you can change how it appears in your New Message window.

Try this - right-click or Control-click on the displayed attachment in the New Message window, then select "View as Icon" from the popup menu that appears.

Both of these suggestions only change how email messages are displayed on your own machine. They have no affect on how your messages will appear on your recipients' machines. The only way to control how attachments appear at the destination is to use Attachment Tamer.

karenmaelarsen wrote:

I don't know how to find 'terminal'

Click on the 'spotlight' (top right of your screen, looks like a magnifying glass), type

Term

and hit 'return' on the keyboard. In the window that opens, paste the command that ecpa gave and press 'return' again.

karenmaelarsen wrote:

etresoft,

Does 'Attachment Tamer' only affect the receiver or both the sender and receiver?

Both. It is the only solution that does that. It actually changes the content of the message.

...and costs $14.99

As Don already pointed out, exactly what the recipient sees will depend on how they've set up their machine and what unnecessary 3rd party apps they might've installed to display attachments the way they want.

If I were you, I'd use the free solutions provided above, save my money and let my recipients decide how they will handle their mail.

That's just me tho... 😉

karenmaelarsen wrote:

Don,

There is no 'view as icon' in the popup menu

Be sure you are right-clicking or Control-clicking on the attachment itself as displayed in the New Message window, in the entered-text (main body) area.

softwater wrote:

...and costs $14.99

Yep! And if you absolutely need (or think you need) that functionality, it is worth every penny.

As Don already pointed out, exactly what the recipient sees will depend on how they've set up their machine and what unnecessary 3rd party apps they might've installed to display attachments the way they want.

In theory, that is true. In practice, Attachment Tamer will cause more of your messages to show up as plain-jane icons on the other end. The problem is, after all, people running Outlook 2003 and 2007. These people likely aren't doing many system modifications.

If I were you, I'd use the free solutions provided above, save my money and let my recipients decide how they will handle their mail.

I completely agree.

karenmaelarsen wrote:

Don,

I double checked and there really is no choice that says 'View as Icon' when I control click on the attachment icon in the New Message window.

If the attachment is already appearing as an icon in the body of the message, then that's all that can be done in this regard. The menu that's displayed when you Control-click on that icon should then display an item "View in place". The choice of "View as icon" would replace that choice if the attachment is shown naturally as opposed to being shown as an icon.

However, if you are Control-clicking the attachment icon in the toolbar of the New Message window, that's the wrong place to click. First attach the attachment, then Control-click the attachment itself as displayed in the New Message window.

It should look like in the picture below:

Just to be sure I tried it myself and it works as advertised and I see no reason, why it would not work on your Mac. Did you close Mail before and restart Mail after pasting the command?

Btw: it's normal behaviour when you leave or close the Terminal application and reopen it that previous commands "disappeared". But they are still in effect.

This didn't work for me!!!! 😟 and it's one of the most recent MBP 13" models :/

I entered that into the terminal restarted mail all sorts of ways too!

pleasehelpmeapple wrote:

This didn't work for me!!!!

It wouldn't have worked for anyone.

Run the following to fix your Mail:

defaults delete com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing

nope didn't work