Why does a reddish hue show up in Mail at times?

TESY inline image I have no confidence in this

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-- Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

- Mark Twain

Dudn't work - but - being able to post text by merely replying AS an email is VERY cool!!

I would still hold off on the bugle call - I am not convinced that Copy/Paste and Drag & Drop have been tried - but you go ahead and cry wolf if you like 😉 = proof that the camera tool is broken for the OP in "what browser and version" has not been demonstrated to my satisfaction.

Thank you, the email trick I learnt from a friend of ours.

The OP has two problems. the reddish hue and the inability to post a screenshot of it. Until we hear your ideas didn't work I'm holding off. The message he got is a generic one sent when the photo doesn't post.

[tsk tsk, holding out on your buddy?]

RE: reddish hue

I have reached out to diane, but she is slam-dunked busy -

meanwhile we can continue to trubbleshoot the image issue - we are eminently qualified, wouldn't you say?

This message is the catchall

There was an issue uploading your image. Please ensure the image file name only includes accepted characters (letters a-z, numbers 0-9, spaces, dashes or underscores), the image is an accepted file type (.jpg, .gif or .png,) and the image is smaller than 2 MB.

My inclination is to focus now on the FILENAME which I know will get this message... I had a screencapture add-on that put the "Page title" as part of the annotated image's filename -- the actual Page title of this very page is:

" Why does a reddish hue show up in Mail at times? | Apple Support Communities "

The Vertical stroke => " | " <= is an illegal character

OS X late model's built-in screenshots put a "timestamp" in the title - I can envision a user customizing a SystemPref time / date format to confuse the OS enough to make it "get" a timestamp containing illegal characters and put it in the screengrab name - OR - the user could be renaming illegally

[tsk tsk, holding out on your buddy?]

Etiquette, one mustn't name drop.

I agree it's probably in the file name. However given the wording of the warning it doesn't have to be.

I suspect what you are seeing is the bleed through in Yosemite where the background color will show behind a window.

Change your Desktop picture to a solid blue background. Do you see a bluish hue now? If you don't like it, you can turn it off. Personally, I like having a bit of color back to contrast all the gray we have now.

http://www.howtogeek.com/199201/how-to-disable-window-transparency-in-os-x-yosem ite/

Now you know me better than that... the TRICK not the person!

Eliminate the impossible and what's left, no matter how improbable... (Sherlock) - gotta have reported results of trying stuff!

Aloha - to Jon Stewart

With all due respect...

whitesalmon said:

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Anyway what turns reddish is the are where the Inbox, Flagged, Drafts, and Sent folders are. They happen to be on the server. All my other folders are "On My Mac" and don't turn reddish.

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😕 Perplexing, it is... wish we could see a screenshot 😉 ;-)

bobseufert wrote:

"Can I just email the picture to the forum somehow? At least I know that works!!"

You can try but I can't guarantee it will work. When you get the email notification to this question reply from email and add the screenshot instead of replying from the Forum.

Aha!

it appears this is another example of giving us "safety scissors" by our pals at the AppleJiveTeam...

[heavy sigh]

full blown JiveWare on JiveCommunity works fine

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