I recently installed an update for the Mac OS. When I try to send a pdf from Preview, the drop down menu for sending items no longer shows Mail as a choice. It shows Messages and other social media but Mail no longer appears as a choice?
In System Preferences : Extensions : Share Menu, what is Mail's status in the list of sharing extensions:
Select it, quit System Preferences, and see if it is available under sharing in Preview.
If items 2 or 3, then follow this Apple article, and revisit Step 1. If this still doesn't resolve the sharing menu issue, I have a more advanced version of the solution in the Apple article that has been known to work too.
Normally you do the following:
open the PDF in question in Preview, on the "File" menu select "Print", on the print page that opens select the PDF button (lower left side), then from the menu that folds out select "Mail".
H Viking,
I do not doubt you, but I don't find them:
Lex
PS: Preview: I always use the print button, because it always works; I don't ever use the "export" function because it does not always work correctly.
There is something else going on as the Apple, or my solution almost always works for these share menu issues.
You may also want to move the home directory : Library : Caches : com.apple.Preview folder to the Trash.
Then, reboot into Safe mode, and then reboot normally afterward. Check the System Preferences : Extensions : Share Menu items again for a checkable Mail item, or one that is checked already. Then revisit Preview Share menu.
I suggest that you either 1) logout/login, or 2) reboot. If this still does not provide you with a selectable Mail icon as above, then open a Terminal application (Launchpad : Other : Terminal), triple-click the following command, and paste into the Terminal window.
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -seed -domain local -domain system -domain user
I eventually figured out that Outlook (which I don't use) was the culprit. I uninstalled Outlook and the Preview started working normally.
I tried the suggestion from VikingOSX. Airdrop now appears in the Share menu but Mail still does not show up after running the suggested Terminal command.
Tried this and it still does not work. Did a log out/log in and reboot. No luck
Thanks to everything
There is a Share button on the Toolbar that is part of the standard Preview toolbar set. It is for sending the content via Mail (normally), without the need to wander off into the print menu.
Cannot send email from Preview
