In Lion, it used to be "New Email With Attachment" and I can assign shortcut to it. In Mountain Lion, they renamed to "Share > email" under contextual menu. But I can't assign a shortcut to it since I don't see it in Keyboard Shortcuts Pane. So how do I assign a shortcut to "Share > Email" ?
Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion, 2.3 GHz Inel Core i5, 16 GB of RAM
Go to System Preferences --> Keyboard --> Shortcuts. In the left panel, click on "Services" and scroll down the list of services in the right panel until you find "Send as Mail Attachment". Create a keyboard shortcut, if one doesn't already exist and presto!
Anyone find a solution to this? Quite annoying.
I am sort of half way finding how to do this but not yet completely functional.
To add the shortcut:
1. launch System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Application Shortcuts
2. click the "+" button
3. select "Finder" on dropdown.
4. Under "Menu Title:", type "Email" without the quote. Then type in a keyboard shortcut. I use command+shift+e.
5. when you do the contextual menu next time, you will see the shortcut right next to the word "Email" (see screen shot below).
The problem is only contextual menu works, but the shortcut doesn't work despite it appears next to the word "Email".
Here's even more strange: if you select the file by clicking and holding until the file name (text part) is hilighted, then, do the shortcut key command. It grabs the text name of the file to Apple Email instead of the whole file. So it reconizes the text but not the file itself.
I hope Apple read this and fix this problem. I filed a complain at their feedback form before but so far no updates are yet tackling on this issue.
I found out by accident that there is yet another way to bring a file to email quickly. First select a file and copy it, then go to Apple Mail, create a new message, and paste it inside message field and it will be treated as an attachment.
I've tried this several times with no success. The shortcut key doesn't even show up next to Email in the menu.
This is the closest I can find so far to fixing the problem. Just to be clear - the problem is that we need a keyboard shortcut to create an email with the finder slection as the attachment. This used to be a servivce that you could add in:
System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts >Services
The option in Services seems to be now be aclled 'New email with Selction' but doesn't appear in the Services menu of the Finder when added here.
Your solution does iondded make a keyboard shortcut appear in the right-click menu, but it doesn't work s ayou poiont out. Perhaps it is a 'syntax' issue when entering details in Sys Prefs?
Be great to know an answer to this one!!
Interesting there is a second place for configuring this. I tried it and it's actually showing up under "Services" dropdown menu if only you have the file's name selected (not the file itself being selected). See picture below for what I mean....
Hey - that's really wierd! Good spot. Make's me think something needs to be enabled somewhere, as it's 'half' working. Or maybe they just broke it and it will come back to life in 10.8.3? Breaking Services is quite a biggie! 😀 Anybody else wanna chip in on this?
I created a little automater workflow that does the trick for me.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4128726/Email%20Item(s).workflow.zip
Just unzip it and place it in ~/Library/Services. Then it will be available in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services > Files and Folders.
Thanks, Joe. It works!
At the beginning it didn't work. Later I found out that there's another Service that has the same shortcut keyboard assigned (shift+command+E). After I deleted that duplicated shortcut, it works. I didn't know Apple Automator can do that.
Thanks so much, Joe!
Nice one Joe - thanks a lot!
Hey man,
The link seems to have expired. Any chance of sharing it again?
Thanks.
Any chance you could repost the zip file?
Hi,
The link is indeed broken. I’d like to see it.
If you still search for this solution you can create it this way:
—— Create the service ——
1. Open Automator
2. (open new if needed)
3. Choose type of the document Service
4. On the top you will find Service receives selected, select files or folders
5. Click on the Mail icon on the left
6. New Mail Message
7. Drag it to the window on your right. I my case I selected my primary email address, cause I have several.
8. Save (Cmd+S). I set a name like "send via email"
—— Set your shortcut ——
1. Go to Preferences
2. Keybord
3. Shortcuts
4. Services
5. Find you file (send via email) and click on add shortcut on the right (shift+cmd+E). Make sure you don’t have other items with the same shortcut.
That’s it you just have to select a file and hit shift+cmd+e 🙂
Take care guys 🙂
How to assign a shortcut to "Share > Email" ?
