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nickgates Author

Level 1

7 points

Mac mail inline attachments - Yosemite 10.10

Has anyone found a Yosemite work-around yet to send image attachments as file icons that show as icons to Windows users and not images?

Right clicking and "show as icon" works on the Mac but Windows users still get full images in the email body. I send lots of files for my work and this is really really annoying!! Many of my customers are not particularly PC literate and just cannot get the image out of the email.

Have always used Lokiware's Attachment Tamer, but in good old Mac "we don't care what our customers want to do, we will force them to do it our way" fashion, this has been disabled and Lokiware seem to be struggling to come up with an updated version.

Does this annoy anyone else, or is just me?

Nick Gates.

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Nov 6, 2014 6:07 AM

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caña

Level 1

10 points

Posted on Nov 10, 2014 8:30 AM

No I have no idea. It annoys me so much. I'm a mac guy as much as the next guy, but this is a classic example of a "cool" feature messing with productivity. There are countless other examples. I use my mac to work, swiping between Windows 7 on Fusion just so I can use Excel, and my mac for everything else. I'm about to start using Outlook on Windows. Another thing I don't understand is why don't they just port Microsoft Office to Mac, keep it the same? Why does everyone dumb down and color their software for mac users.

Whatever, Apple stop listening a long time ago.

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I MC

Level 1

43 points

May 24, 2016 9:45 AM in response to Larry McJunkin

Thanks for this I'm trialling it now.

Only problem I have is the logo part of my signature,

the ONE thing I want to remain inline, now gets separated

and attached at end of message along with the other attachments.

This, despite me making what I think are the appropriate

selections in the preferences pane.

Do you have same problem, if so your solution?

Thank you.

May 24, 2016 10:11 AM in response to HollyS

Why does Apple Mail continue to be unusable and not allow easy sending of attachments, without having to do all the "silly" terminal work-a-rounds.

This is 2016, not 1984

I had to go back to Outlook, due to Apple Mail being so bad.

When is Apple going to make email software that is usable

"Make Apple Great Again"

I MC

Level 1

43 points

May 24, 2016 11:35 AM in response to Larry McJunkin

Was good of you to reply so promptly

I think I'm fretting over naught.

Sending an email to myself from one email account to another

and viewing on same computer.

I need to send to a recipient with Windows.

Overall though, the default show as Icon on sent and received messages

is worth the price

Thanks

Have a good one.

Tech198

Level 1

78 points

May 27, 2016 7:02 AM in response to nickgates

isn't this due to how the messages was formatted Rich Text (HTML) or Plain Text ? I remember seeing something relating to attachments, but viewing it in one way or another depends on weather the it was sent as Rich Text or Plain.

Maybe it also apples to this too ? *shrugs*

mfulsac

Level 1

36 points

Sep 10, 2016 6:53 AM in response to casey451

Only way to stop pdf’s reverting and arriving as ‘view in message’ at receiving end is to add empty lines to a file before it is converted to pdf. Then it is recorded as more than a single page pdf and will only display at composing and receiving ends as an icon

Eric Root

Level 10

684,615 points

Nov 16, 2014 1:40 PM in response to nickgates

Terminal command.

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool YES

nickgates Author

Level 1

7 points

Nov 16, 2014 2:31 PM in response to Eric Root

Oh yes! Eric, thank you!! That works an absolute treat!!

Just shows how easy it would be for Apple to code a switch though (sorry, still have to get angry with them!)

Thank you again!!

Nov 16, 2014 2:38 PM in response to nickgates

Indeed thank you! But why oh why isn't this simply a setting in the preferences?! Truly maddening.

caña

Level 1

10 points

Nov 17, 2014 12:55 AM in response to Eric Root

best Monday ever...

thanks man.

Nov 23, 2014 2:51 AM in response to nickgates

I have found out that if you do a right click (I think you can't use the trackpad for this and have to use a mouse) you can click on "Show as icon" or something like that and the problem is solved.

casey451

Level 1

4 points

Dec 14, 2014 6:14 PM in response to jqspiller

Thanks so much for this effort. While awaiting Attachment Tamer (GO Adam!), I'll try Sparrow.

nickgates Author

Level 1

7 points

Dec 23, 2014 10:47 AM in response to nickgates

I have just emailed Lokiware, the writers of Attachment Tamer to see how their update for Yosemite is coming along, have given them the link to this thread.

Ajkilroy

Level 1

0 points

Jan 9, 2015 8:38 AM in response to nickgates

my co-worker had this issue and found that installing this plug-in fixed his issue

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40596/universal-mailer

Cosman

Level 1

31 points

Jan 21, 2015 12:49 PM in response to nickgates

I have an idea. Someone post Tim Cook’s email address here and let’s flood his personal email with complaints and lots of attachments. Maybe that will wake him up.

Cosman

Level 1

31 points

Jan 21, 2015 7:25 PM in response to Barney-15E

The point was to flood him with compliants. Attachments are secondary.

Mac mail inline attachments - Yosemite 10.10