When I had iPhoto (I know it's very much a thing of the past now), I used to just drag the photos I wanted to email directly into Mail. With Photos, I can no longer do that. It also seems that Mail is not one of the options listed when I go to "Share". I see this as a HUGE deficit in the Photos program. Does anyone know of a quick and easy way of emailing photos directly from Photos? Thanks for any advice you can send my way.
iPad, Syncing w/ MacBook, Mac OSX 10.6.8
Photos will show Mail in the Share menu, when you enable Mail as the Default email reader in the Mail > Preferences > General panel.
And you should be able to drag photos from Photos into a new Mail Massage. If you start to compose a message in Mail, you can drag and drop photos from Photos's browser directly into the new message.
Brilliant!!! It totally worked! Thank you!
My pleasure 🙂
Hi. I also have this problem, but after enabling Mail as the Default email reader in the Mail > Preferences > General panel it still isn't showing up in my Share list. Help me please.
Jenny, is Mail missing from the Share menu in Photos? And does it not appear if you click "More" in the Share menu?
Then try this fix - see the link below:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203129
If Share options or Markup is missing after upgrading to OS X Yosemite or El Capitan - Apple Support
Just be careful, when using the Terminal. Typos in the Terminal can be dangerous.
Open the link and copy and paste the Terminal command exactly as it is into the Terminal window, don't try to type it yourself.
It is a harmless command, but spelling errors in the Terminal can change the Terminal command into something dangerous.
This command does the following: It will reset the launch services database, so the installed applications and the services, document types, etc. supported by the applications can be found, i.e. for the Share menu.
Paths are searched for applications to register with the Launch Service database.
Valid domains are "system", "local", "network" and "user". Domains can also be specified using only the first letter. The parameters in the command are the following:
-kill Reset the Launch Services database before doing anything else
-seed If database isn't seeded, scan default locations for applications and libraries to register
That worked. Thanks a lot!
You're welcome, Jenny. 🙂
Emailing Photos from Photos
