not seeing my folders when doing Save or Attach

I have the same problem. None of your responses so far address the issue.

Before the Sierra upgrade whenever I issued a save or save as command I had the ability to navigate through subfolders to get to where I wanted to save a file. Now this ability is gone.

Basically the only choice I seem to have is to save to documents or whatever folder happens to be visible then use Finder to move the file to where I wanted it in the first place.

Is there a way to fix this so it works like it did before the Sierra upgrade? If not, is there a way to remove the Sierra upgrade?

Hi William

Slightly confused now, but let's try somethings.

There are more ways than one to attach a file(s) in Mail, so maybe a different may work better.

You can for example select the file(s) in Finder and then "Share" to Mail which will open up an new Message window in Mail.

You can drag and drop from Finder into either a new message directly in Mail or even just drag to the Mail icon in Dock.

You may find this workflow much faster for attaching files.

The reverse mostly works as well. You can drag the files wherever you want from a message to Icons, folders, etc…

You can use the default "Downloads" folder to Save attachments or you can create a folder and make it the default folder in Mail>Preferences>General>Downloads Folder. Click on the disclosure arrows, select "Others" navigate to folder of choice and that makes it the default.

Did you know you can place Folders in your Dock? Then you have the ability to drag and drop to various folders there.

Mail save is contextual in nature. For example if your attachments are photos then it will show various Photo apps as possibilities.

See these Apple Kbs…

Mail for Mac: Use the Mail sidebar or Favorites bar

macOS Sierra: Customize the Finder toolbar and sidebar

Mail for Mac: Add attachments in Mail

Hope this helps, Greg

Screen shot would help here.

You can set what you see in Finder windows, sidebar, desktop using Finder preferences.

Set Mail preferences the same way. Save location can be set in the General Tab.

You can also drag any folder you want to the right side of the Dock or to your Desktop for quick access.

Hope this helps, Greg

Is it possible by expanding (click, hold and drag) your Attachments dialogue that Favourites becomes visible in the list towards the bottom. If you do see Favourites you may need to click to the right hand side of the column to Show/ Hide the icons for Desktop, Documents etc, if you can do this but want the Favourites to show above Devices click, hold and drag Favourites to the top of the sidebar list.

I just had the same issue and believe that I found the FIX.

I opened Finder and moved my Documents folder into the mail attachment folder.