Yosemite mail does not save multiple attachments from different emails

As per this article : Mail (Yosemite): View, save, or delete attachments

Save attachments

Do any of the following:

Move the pointer over the message header, click the Attachment button , choose Save All or click the name of an attachment, then select where to save the files. Or choose File > Save Attachments.

Drag an attachment to the desktop to save it there.

By default, attachments are saved in the Downloads folder, available in the Dock. You can specify a different default folder if you want: choose Mail > Preferences, click General, then select a folder.

Just turn off Organize by Conversation under the View menu, then it works again.

Add a button in the Mail toolbar to switch between Conversations/ No Conversations to make it quicker.

Still a bug though, but an easier work around.

Same here with Yosemite 10.10.1, MBP Retina.

Any news here?

Same issue ...

Same issue, and also Mail doesn't even save attachments (single or multiple) from a single selected email. The File > Save Attachments commands just basically seems not to do anything at all in Yosemite 10.10.1 Mail.app.

A window pops out after you clicked 'Save Attachment.' There is a drop down menu under Save As: and Tags:. Make sure you choose Documents and then the appropriate folder you want the file to save to. That should resolve your problem. I had encountered this tiny trouble earlier and sorted this out by myself.

This works for one email, but not many for me. This is a huge bug. Please fix APPLE! 🙂

I have registered this bug as 19071688 but it has been already registered by someone else.

darthtina wrote:

This works for one email, but not many for me. This is a huge bug. Please fix APPLE! 🙂

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One of my customers experience the same issue (tested while saving on a remote server) we could solve this by holding the option (alt) key while selecting save all…

Could you be a little more specific? There is no command I can find in Mail that is called "Save All." When I attempted to hold down the option key while choosing "Save Attachments" from the File menu, I got the same behavior as before, which is that nothing is saved from multiple emails with attachments. Similarly, holding down the option key while choosing "Save As" from the File menu does nothing. The command saves the emails' text, but not the attachments.

I was having the same problems too because mail app tried to save files to some unexisting (already deleted) folder.

When I recreated this folder, it worked again.

Check system.log if there is any error like “Error - unable to write attachment” and read detail description there.

You can view system.log in the Console application (Application -> Utilities -> Console.app)…

I have a similar problem. If I have an email with five attachments and try to use the Save All function only one file is saved. I have to manually move each file to the folder on my computer. I can work around by dragging the files from the email to the folder but this isn't very elegant.

A suggested workflow to save multiple attachments from multiple Emails:

1. Select a mailbox (i.e. Inbox) from the Mailbox pane.

2. Sort the messages by selecting "Attachments" from the pop-down menu that appears by clicking the disclosure button at the top of the Messages pane.

3. Select multiple messages for the attachments you wish to save by holding down the Shift key and clicking for adjacent messages, and holding down the Command key and clicking for non-adjacent messages.

4. Control-click on one of the selected messages (highlighted in blue) and select "Forward"from the contextual menu that appears. Alternatively, press the Command-Shift-F keys.

5. As an option, you may want send the Email with the attachments at the end of the message. From Mail's menu bar select Edit > Attachments > Insert Attachments at End of Message.

6. Address the New Message with attachments to yourself, fill in a subject, and send.

7. Open the message when it arrives in your Inbox.

8. Navigate your cursor to the faint horizontal line at the top of the Message viewer until the segmented control fades into view.

9. Click the disclosure button labeled with a paperclip icon and an integer indicating the number of attachments. Select "Save All" from the pop-down menu.

10. Select a location to save the attachments to from the sheet that slides down. Click the "Save" button.

Btw, if you prefer not to send the message to yourself a better option might be to save the message as a draft instead and save the attachments from there. Substitute the following for step 6 and 7:

Click the close button on the message:

Make sure the message's Subject field is filled in for easy viewing in the Messages viewer. Click the "Save" button on the "Save this message as a draft?" dialog sheet that slides down:

Click the Drafts mailbox in the Mailbox pane. Select the draft message from the Messages viewer, but don't open. Go on to Step 8.