how can I sent photos as attachment rather than embedded in the email?

LaS, there also seems to be a difference in Mail behavior when the photo is sent from iPhoto, vs being attached or dragged and dropped into the email. Dragging and dropping seems to do what you're wanting to do, while sending from iPhoto seems to embed the pic in the email.

Wish I could be more help.

"sig wrote:

When your editor gets the email the photo is an attachment he can download.

Download from where?"

From the Mail window. Says "# Attachment/s w/size, Save, Quicklook"

To download implies that you have to go out to the net. If it is in the email that has already been downloaded from the email server then it doesn't again need to be DownLoaded. It needs to be save to, copied to, a folder on the hard drive.

People use the word download way to often for things that are not a download. Like to download a program to their hard drive when they really mean Install it to the hard drive.

Thank you very much for the detailed clarification.

you can "collapse" the preview by right clicking and selecting "view as icon".

One other thing to try:

Make sure that at the instant you attach a file, the mail insertion cursor is not in the middle of the message, but preferably at the end, or possibly at the beginning.

If this is still a problem, send the attachment in a separate email, with no message text whatsoever. You may choose to send an introductory email saying, "picture to follow in next email". Some use the convention of putting (nt) is the subject line to indicate (No Text), i.e., no regular email message words, just the picture and nothing else. This allows the reader to understand the message did not get dropped, there was no message other than the attachment.

Dick,

The terminal command did work great!

And when you think about it, out of all the "holy water" methods outlined above, that is really the only one that makes serious sense.

Thank you!

You're a genius Dick! I too had this problem. Thank you for your help. The DisableInlineAttachmentViewing worked for me, whahoo 🙂 Very much appreciated. xxooxx

You're welcome!

Dick - This worked for out going emails thanks but now the emails I receive that include company logos etc are also Jpeg attachments. Is it possible to still send my attachments as jpeg files but also be able to receieve emails that include full logos etc..?

Check out Mail -> Preferences -> Viewing, see if "Display remote images in HTML messages" is checked.

If that doesn't work, I don't know what the problem may be. Some people have had success by shutting the Mac down, then restarting.

I use attachment tamer which seems to work

http://lokiware.info/Attachment-Tamer

I have tried every tip and trick I can find without success (dragging and dropping, going into Applications>Utilities>Terminal and typing "defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes", checking [√] Send windows-friendly attachments when clicking the paper clip icon to add an attachment) and read on another forum that the signature line creates an HTML code which somehow prevents the photo from becoming an attachment.

I removed my signature completely from the email message by going to Mail > Preferences > Signature and deleting everything I had in there. I don't think it is necessary to remove it via Preferences and a simple "delete" will do but I don't really need my signature on my personal email account anyways and don't mind losing it.

I decided to go back and remove the DisableInline command to test if that would have an impact. I restarted mail and sent a test email to my work computer which is a PC utilizing Outlook. The attachment became embedded once again. I added the DisableInline code back in, sent a test email, and voila! Attachment returned!

So, it seems the cause of this issue is multifaceted like most problems in life. If you have tried all of the options listed and are still having issues it may just be the automated signature is the culprit. Good luck!

the cause of this issue is multifaceted like most problems in life.

It certainly is.

When there is html code present and you "drag-and-drop" your attachment into the email, it MAY get embedded in the middle of a bunch of html code, and Outlook and a few really stupid email programs will be unable to notice that there is an attachment in there.

That is why these sometimes improve things:

• [√] Send Windows-friendly attachments

• attach at very beginning or very end

• deliberately using the paperclip "attach" Icon rather than drag-and-drop

• send ONLY the attachment all by itself (nt)

** There is one more extreme option. Tell Mail that this message must NOT contain any html:

Mail > Preferences > Composing > Composing: Message Format: { Rich text (html) | Plain text (NO html) }

Only letters and numbers and special characters, and no html, will go out with your message. Your attachment now has "nowhere to hide".