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

I'm having trouble with attachments. When I select a document to attach, in either Word (doc) or pdf, sometimes the whole file opens in the body of the document, instead of just appearing as an attachment icon. I can't figure out why this only happens sometimes...seems to happen more with documents I've scanned in and saved as either Word or PDF files - what might I be doing wrong?

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Apr 25, 2013 11:02 PM

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Nov 27, 2017 8:50 AM in response to Alberto Ravasio

Hi Alberto,


Thanks very much for the advice above, as a new MacBook user, I was having the same issue as the user who posted (any many others). I did what you suggested, added the code and it's been working perfectly since....


However, I've now got my company logo set up and I cannot get the logo to show in my email signature as a pic, instead it keeps converting into an icon, and I suspect it's because of the previous instruction.....


Can you help - can I show attachments as default as icons, but still have things like company logo as the actual pic?


Would be enormously appreciative of some help!

Apr 26, 2013 2:05 AM in response to gengail

There is nothing wrong. I never understood why Apple Mail shows attachments randomly as icon or inline documents or a mix of them.

If you ctrl+click the PDF or Word document you should be able to choose from the menu, show as icon.


If you want to permanently show the attachments as icons, close Apple Mail, open Terminal and issue the following command


defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

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

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