Why do the attachments I'm trying to send open in the body of my email rather than as an attachment icon?

Thank you Alberto, For taking the time to try and help "us apple seeds". Your suggestion didn't work for me however, I'm running "Mavercats" 10.9.4, so that's probably why. Have you heard of anything more concrete/current for me? I'm mostly concerned (like the others) about how the e-mail is received (by Windows users), and not so much how it is displayed on my machine. Thanx again.

Re What Windows users will get, I imagine that it is as an attachment as we used to get before Apple decided for us how we want anything. Just send something with an attachment to anyone you know who has a PC running Windows and ask them for feedback about whether they received it as an attachment?

Yes Martin, and thank you for your fast response, but that is what I'm doing. I think now I'm going to try to find someone not using Windows 8.

worked for me - ty!

Alberto - THANK YOU, the terminal command WORKED! Cheers ... 🙂 ... Larry

Today's date is October 11, 2014. I am running Lion 10.7.5

I am having the same problem as everyone else. So I followed Alberto's instruction but I wonder if I did it correctly. For I did test trials of sending myself emails with the attachments as icons, and when I recd the em., the forms were 'open'.

Where exactly do I place the "defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes " in Termnal?

Application > Utilities > The a screen saying "otterearpetcare - bash - 80 x 24 l

Last login: Sat Oct 11 15:58:14 on ttys000

Lindas-MacBook-Pro:~ otterearpetcare$

After the $ is where I placed the above quote.

But I test it again and its still showing at the other end as open documents.

So am I doing this right or is there something new I can try.

Just asking, did you quit Mail before doing the Terminal command?

And after pasting & hitting enter it returned with a prompt on a new line?

Yes I did close Mail

and yes it did prompt with a new line which says: Lindas-MacBook-Pro:~ otterearpetcare$

I'd try Attachment Tamer then...

http://lokiware.info/Attachment-Tamer

How do I reverse this "defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes? I did it and now my email signature isn't working and the pictures I'm emailing are still opening up in the email vs. being an attachment.

Thanks!

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool no

But I think you may have some disk or file corruption.

Appreciated Alberto.

Alberto:

I have tried, in vain, executing your command in Terminal. I open Terminal, allow it to log in, then paste the command and press enter.

Re-opening Mail still shows the attachments expanded rather than as icons. What am I doing wrong in Terminal?

Thanks.

GeneonMAC

Working great, thanks!

Thank you Alberto!!