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

For work, I need to send photos to my editor via email. In Mail, the jpgs automatically become embedded in the body of the the email, but my editor would prefer to receive them as attachments. Is there any way to send photos as attachments in Mail, rather than embedded email itself?

MacBook (13-inch Late 2008), iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Jun 13, 2012 4:46 PM

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Posted on May 5, 2017 10:50 AM

I've experimented with the all three options, sending emails to myself and reading the emails on a windoze machine with outlook 2010 on it. At first try, none of the three options seemed to do what people are asking for (and I wanted too). However, the reason number two didn't work, was because number one was still active (checked). So here's the solution that worked for me:


  1. If Mail is open, quit it (cmd-Q)
  2. Open Terminal and type: defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes
  3. Start up the Apple Mail-app
  4. Go to Edit > Attachments and make sure Always Send Windows-Friendly Attachments is NOT checked. If it is uncheck it!


Hope this is helpful to someone else.

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

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