Mail still thinks I'm using iPhoto and won't let me export photos to the new Photos desktop app. When I go into Photos > Preferences > General the "Use as System Photo Library" button is greyed out. Think this might have something to do with it.
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
Control (right) - click on the photo(s) in Mail and select Export to Photos in the contextual menu:
The export and resulting import is done behind the scenes so you won't see any evidence of it. However, the photos will be in the Last Import album in Photos.
Control (right) - click on the photo(s) in Mail and select Export to Photos in the contextual menu:
The export and resulting import is done behind the scenes so you won't see any evidence of it. However, the photos will be in the Last Import album in Photos.
OK. Thanks for that. Can't use the paperclip attachment thingie, but I can right click on each photo, choose Photos, and it does go to Photos. However, it does not show up in my 'Last Import' album. That still shows my imports from yesterday from my camera.
I have imported two photos which I mailed to myself. In the 'Photos' view (top line in the Photos sidebar) they are inserted by the datetime the photograph was taken (not the date they were imported), which means they can be very hard to find if you don't know that datetime. However in the 'All Photos' album they do appear as the last photos, which is the way it used to work and which I prefer.
And the 'Use as System Photo Library' is still greyed out in Preferences.
However, it does not show up in my 'Last Import' album.
Now that you mentioned that I forgot that they do go directly into Moments, etc. bypassing the Last Import album. Look in the Moments mode. They get imported even it Photos is not open.
Yes, they go into 'Moments' but if you don't know the time the photo was taken, you have to go through all the moments to find it, since it is filed by time of photo. that is distinctly unhelpful if someone sends you a photo they took (where you don't know the date of the photo).
Luckily, imports from Mail do go to the bottom in the "All Photos" album.
Luckily, imports from Mail do go to the bottom in the "All Photos" album.
Good point. That's because the All Photos is sorted by Date Added. It still should show up in the last import album. Be sure to tell Apple what missing features you'd like restored in Photos, including having the Mail import show up in Last Import, via https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html
The right-click, save to photos works fine, but is not a great work around when there is more than one photo attachment. In that case I have to click on each photo. Does anyone know how to change the "paper clip" to allow to export all attachments to photos rather than iPhoto?
The right-click, save to photos works fine, but is not a great work around when there is more than one photo attachment. In that case I have to click on each photo.
You can select all photo attachments at once and then right-click once. Just click the first attached photo, hold down the shift key and click the last photo to select all of them, then ctrl-click.
Does anyone know how to change the "paper clip" to allow to export all attachments to photos rather than iPhoto?
Wait for an update with a bug-fix.
Luckily, imports from Mail do go to the bottom in the "All Photos" album.
🙂 That is exactly, why the All Photos album is sorted differently from the library view, so we can access photos by "date added".
Where can I find a "Moments" mode and what "moment" should it reflect?
In my opinion "Photos" is the worst library management tool Apple ever released... I'll export to iPhoto - as this works.
Unless you bother to learn how things work you will never like them
Moments is one of the three basic views of Photos - years - collections - moments - when you are viewing photos you switch between these three views using the left/right arrows ( < > ) in the upper left of the window
Photos is actually much better tha iPhoto in many (most) respects
LN
Unless you bother that a "basic view" is hidden behind some arrows and exporting from Mail works in iPhoto without your help you might want to call Photos "much better" - you also might want to consider accepting different point of views -
And if you please: correct your misspelling before posting - Thank you!
Unless you bother to learn how things work you will never like them
Working with Aple since '84 - guess I could say that I DID bother... BTW: something seems wrong with the "maintenance" of this site...With the sidebar enabled click on Photos to get to the Moments view:
With the sidebar hidden click on the Photos tab at the top of the window:
Even with "Use as System Photo Library" selected in Photo-Preferences-General, exporting from Mail would not work for me.
I had to go to System Preferences, select "Extensions", then "Share Menu"
and then in the list de-select Aperture and select Photos.
Thereafter it worked with the photos appearing in Photo as noted in the string above. Exporting from Mail when Photos is not running results in the icon in the Dock bouncing up and down a couple of times to generously draw attention to the fact that something has arrived in Photo.
Thank you! Thank you! deaano3500
I've been trying to solve this issue for a long time. Your post did the trick. I would never have thought to look in the Extensions menu.
Can't export photo attachments from Mail to Photos
