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

sbstrum wrote:

 

The terminal command does indeed do the trick and I agree that Apple should have this as a Preference.

Of interest is that the person receiving the email with the icon still gets it as an opened file and even the sender's SENT email shows that what was sent as an icon during composition of the email now shows the opened file.

 

Another item that Apple should be addressing besides a growing number of issues that would make for a true upgrade in the OS rather than a major annoyance and waste of time and money.

You can control how an attachment appears in your email client, you do not have control over the client used by the recipient. It will appear inline or as an icon depending on their preferences.

To ask Apple to give you control over some other person's email client is (a) not possible and (b) just a little arrogant.

This worked great (2 years after you posted it). Thanks so much!!!

Thank youuuuu! i did this, if i want to go back and view in text attachments, what the terminal code?

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool no

This did the job -great and many thanks.

However on doing this fix it has stopped things working on the bottom menu bar e.g. if I am in Safari and I click on Mail, nothing happens.

Mission Control still works and so I can get to Mail thro that, but far from convenient!

Any suggestions?

Regards

Ken

This the forum for OS 10.5. Leopard. If you are running a different version of OS X please start your own thread in the appropriate forum.

Thank you Alberto. Your solution worked perfectly for me.

Thanks so much! This worked with OS X 10.10.4 Yosemite.

Thanks, so much, for the reversal instructions (command)

I admit that I know  almost nothing about the workings of Terminal, but Albert's instructions to change the default attachment handling was so easy (it worked instantly) but now I need to revert. 

I pasted the reversal command that you offered and then realized that I don’t know what to do next. (I have never used Terminal before).

I don't know the exact sequence of things to do to make the reversal to the original default. Could someone kindly tell me what to do, step by step, to finish the process. Please,  I'm the oldest newbie around. At 80, I'm losing memory cells faster than my hair. So take mercy and make the language simple.

Many thanks in advance,

-- garygladstone

Thank you.  This has been bothering me for a very long time and I got tired of trying things.  Your Terminal and bit of code solved it for me.

Harvey

Didn't work for me - any other ideas?