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If i send a folder via Apple Mail, will users on other platforms be able to open it?
When you attach a folder to a email in Mail, even thought it looks like an individual folder in the email, both in the composed email and then the sent email, nonetheless the contents of the folder ...
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Send an email as an attachment from iPhone
You can now drag and drop emails onto an email draft that you're editing on iPads that are running iOS 11 or iPhones running iOS 15.
Create a new email (or forward or reply to an existing email)
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Working with attachments **to** a PDF file in Preview
Preview doesn't support this, but you can extract attachments on the command line using the popper tool pdfdetach. To install poppler with Homebrew:
brew install poppler
To list attachments in a PDF ...
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How to show "only mails with attachments" in MacOS Mail?
Just start typing "attachment" in the same search box and then select it when the prompt comes up. It will then show only those mails that have attachments.
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AppleScript file permission error when trying to save attachment of mail message
A few years late to this party. However, in case anyone else has the same problem, this seems to be the necessary AppleScript syntax these days:
save theAttachment in POSIX file thePath
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Mac Mail application removes attachment when forwarding mails
TLDR; Attachments will be part of the email per default iff it has at least one recipient.
📆 As of 01.02.2023 on Mail Version 16.0 (3731.300.101.1.3):
The default behaviour seems to be that ...
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Mail PDF attachments shown as 0 KB
Go to Preferences -> Accounts -> specific account, and change the pop-up entry for Attachments from "all" to "last" (or however the "zuletzt" entry is called in english).
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Disable preview of pdf in Mail under OS X Mavericks
Clive Galeni has created a Mail.app plug-in that sets View as icon to be default:
This update will disable attachment auto preview feature and disable inline attachments when reading messages.
It ...
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In Messages for iOS, can I delete an individual photos from a conversation?
Go into the conversation on your iOS device (assuming iOS10). In the top right corner you should see an information symbol ("i" in a circle). Click on it. Then scroll down to the picture you want to ...
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How do I stop the iPhone from adding text attachments when I send pictures?
This is the fault of Microsoft Exchange and not specific to iOS.
This happens because Microsoft Exchange Server is reformatting messages sent through it.
The Exchange server insists that ...
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Apple Mail not downloading attachments
I have been battling this problem for months and after an odd work around from Apple that only worked some of the time I found my problem. Within the "Mail app" in preferences you can add a ...
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Apple Mail not downloading attachments
I found this post to be very interesting:
http://osxdaily.com/2016/12/17/fix-mail-not-showing-attachments-mac/
Backup your computer
Rebuild your email mailbox(es) (this may take a long time to run,...
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Mac Mail application removes attachment when forwarding mails
When you create a new Forward message, right-click the toolbar and Customise Toolbar... You'll see an icon for Include Attachments. Drag it into the toolbar. Click Done.
You can now toggle this ...
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Turn off automatic download of attachments on iOS Mail
Currently there isn't such a setting on iOS Mail app (as of iOS 12.0.1, Oct 2018).
A workaround that may help with detecting some unfiltered spam messages would be trying to preview the message ...
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Are email Attachments technically always inline, or does macOS Mail not allow conventional, non-inline attachments?
There is a definition in the MIME specification for both inline and attachment files within email messages, but (from the Wiki page linked above):
As of 2010, a good majority of mail user agents do ...
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On Apple Mail I get an error message "the attachments are still being loaded" - any fix?
The Photos library repair tool resolved the problem for me. Hold down the Option and Command buttons while opening Photos, then select the repair option.
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Sierra / Mail.app workaround for missing "Display in Place / Display as Icon" choices?
A successful workaround is displaying the visa on your computer, taking a screenshot (command + shift + 4) of the image, and attaching the screenshot to the email. In this case, the screenshot ...
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AppleScript file permission error when trying to save attachment of mail message
I'm not sure about the permissions issue exactly, but I get no error when I use "file" in the line you are referencing.
save theAttachment in file savePath
Where savePath is an alias to a file. If ...
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Compress attachments in received emails
Within mail? No. You'd have to create a filing system outside mail and drag your attachments into that.
If you do that I recommend dragging the email into that too, otherwise later you'll lose the ...
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Image in email attachment is not saving to the Photos app
I would imagine it's the same story as saving a screenshot or any other photo from online etc.
Pictures like that are not automatically added to the Photos app, you have to import them yourself.
You ...
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Mac Mail application removes attachment when forwarding mails
Go to Edit > Attachment > and select "Include Original Attachments in Reply".
I really don't get it why Apple still doesn't make this a default.
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How to Remove Attachments in the Mail app in 10.12 Sierra
The Messages > Remove Attachments selection is greyed-out unless you have selected (in the Mail message viewer) one or more emails which contain attachments. Select one or more emails which contain ...
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Send an email as an attachment from iPhone
Looks like things have moved on since the original post, but unfortunately Apple has still not added this basic functionality to the iOS version of mail. It should be as simple as selecting “forward ...
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Send an email as an attachment from iPhone
Currently, you can't send an email as an attachment on iOS. The only functionality available is to use the Forward button to quote a copy of the email (with or without the original attachments).
(On ...
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Apple Mail not downloading attachments
Disabling "enable junk mail filtering" fixed it for me (Mail Preferences). I tried everything, this fixed it as a last ditch attempt before only using my phone as the goto device.
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In Messages for iOS, can I delete an individual photos from a conversation?
iMessage operates like SMS or old-school email, not like webmail or FB messenger where what you're viewing is basically a real-time mirror of the server. Once a message has been delivered to your ...
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How do I save images in Messages to my hard drive?
This isn't quite as quick as a script via Mac, but if you know there are a few specific convos that have most of the images, you can access them all at once:
- open message thread you want pics from
-...
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Accidentally "Removed Attachments" via Mail.app
I have just accidentally "manually removed attachments" from Mac mail and because I had opened them first (word documents) I was able to open Word and go to "open recent" and they did open and I was ...
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OneNote: Attach a file
The files you attach are just copies of the originals. In order to edit the attached files, you must go to the original and edit it there. Once you update the Note, the changes will be reflected. ...
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