Attachments Freeze Mail Application in Mavericks

Upgraded to OS Mavericks last week and am just running into this problem. MaiI wasn't connecting at first so I deleted and re-installed my mail account. Now everything seems to be working, except when I compose a message and try to add an attachment, the application freezes and has to be force quit. The attachment is only around 800KB - before upgrade I would routinely attach files 10 times larger than this without any issues. I let the rainbow wheel spin for at least 20 minutes at one point to see if the problem would work itself out but no dice. Any solutions?

I just experienced the same issue...
Although, it chaged a bit: sometimes hitting the "Attach file" Button would freeze mail, sometimes not. But adding an Image by drag'n'drop freezes the app everytime here.
Even replying to an email containing attachments (like images) would result in Mail.app freezing, as the attachment would be copied to the new email...
And it seems it's not related to the Upgrade to Mavericks, it worked like charm the last couple of months, now its happening....
I tried re-creating the Mail Account, removed the mail.plist, removed all emails on disk, had it downloaded new... I don't know what to do next...
Does anybody have any idea how to fix it?

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when opening attachments from emails, i have recently had to go [via safari] into my .mac account to download directly.
if i try to do this via mail, it stops responding and i eventually have to force quit.
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JT,
Please test with Don't Keep Any Copies for Offline Viewing. I am trying to relate what is being report in this Topic, to that discussed in an earlier Topic, at:
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How to cancel the auto download of attachments in Mail application?

I want to have the option of downloading only the needed attachments especially when working on 3G network and not WiFi. Is there a setting to do this?

There is no such option/setting on an iPhone to determine this. Whether you can view the attachment has more to do with your connection, WiFi or cellular, and the size of the attachment than anything else. There will be a paperclip indicating the message includes an attachment regardless if downloaded with the message or not. When connected to the cellular network, if an attachment is below a designated size, the attachment will be downloaded automatically. If over a certain size, you must select the attached file icon in the body of the message to download the attachment. The size limit varies by carrier/provider.

Attachments freeze in MAIL

Attachments freeze in MAIL
The "Choose File" blinks..I cannot cance, or save, or select all, or dismiss.

I just experienced the same issue...
Although, it chaged a bit: sometimes hitting the "Attach file" Button would freeze mail, sometimes not. But adding an Image by drag'n'drop freezes the app everytime here.
Even replying to an email containing attachments (like images) would result in Mail.app freezing, as the attachment would be copied to the new email...
And it seems it's not related to the Upgrade to Mavericks, it worked like charm the last couple of months, now its happening....
I tried re-creating the Mail Account, removed the mail.plist, removed all emails on disk, had it downloaded new... I don't know what to do next...
Does anybody have any idea how to fix it?

TS1506 I have a problem opening some email attachments. They will not open in the mail application on an IPad Air

I recently upgraded from an iPad 1 to an Air. One of its main uses is to avoid printing volumes of papers for meetings, so the abilty to open attachments with mail is pretty important.
There are some attachments that will not open in the mail application on an iPad Air. Some in the same format do (docx). They do open in Mail on my MacBook, and iPad1, or if I go to webmail on any device including a Blackberry, so it is not a file corruption problem. The problem persists on different networks. Other emails from the same sender do work. It seems to be specifically related to IOS 7 or the Mail app. Quickview won't work, nor will opening with a range of Apps which report a file error.
There was an historical problem with Apple garbling pdf files, but this is a new one on me.
All this is a shame because it is opening emails in attachments that was one of my main reasons for buying an Air.
Does anyone know of the cause? A solution?

What about a work-around?
Ios 7.1 etc. has a problem with communicating with exchange. There are lots of reports of problems with pdf files.
The work-arounds mentioned here may be of assistnace.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5992793?start=0&tstart=0
get a gmail account.
There are lots of ways of moving files.
A simple and popular way to copy files and share files among your devices.
https://www.dropbox.com/
"Box lets you store all of your content online, so you can access, manage and share it from anywhere. Integrate Box with Google Apps and Salesforce and access Box on mobile devices" Rated the most secure cloud storage by SkyHigh Networks.
https://www.box.com/
Files Connect -- "Cloud Storage services like Dropbox, MobileMe iDisk, Google Docs/Picasa, Facebook photos, FTP, SFTP, WebDAV ... AFS (Apple File Shares) SMB (Windows shares) protocols"
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/files-connect/id404324302?mt=8
Windows File server
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/filebrowser-access-files-on/id364738545?mt=8
"Dukto is a simple application that allows you to share files between devices connected to the same (wireless) LAN network."
http://www.tidal.it/?page_id=309&lang=en
http://www.msec.it/blog/?page_id=11

Error While downloading the file A server Error has occurred, please try again later Downloading Yahoo mail Application Attachments Trying to download My Photos and movie 3 items so i can delete them all

I have icloud and a new iPhone5 ! They work good , took pictures and a few short movies, plugged in my phone to my iMac transfered Items to iPhoto then inported items to iMovie. when getting to know what i was doing i decided to delete pictures and movies i no longer wanted. when i looked for a few missing items i opend Finder and there some where buyt i had already trashed them and deleted the doubles. Still could not find missing pictures and movies 3 items and today after calling yahoo about a different complant with sending feed back for Yahoo mail Applications login . i opened up Attachments Not the Large Attachments just Attachments and there were the 3 items i had been hunting for to Trash and delete. the mail Attachments file does not have the Option to delet Files and photos and movies. When i tried to Download the 3 items a window shows up that says Error While Downloading the Files, A Server Error has occured, please Try Again later. nothing works how do i remove the Trapped photo and movie Blank Files and trash them? Onece they get into my downloads i can do something with them as i understand. That part of it kind of keeps me in Question also because why should i have to down load my own files of Attachments / Pictures and movies if they are comming from my iMac? How much better is iLife11 then iPhoto08 and iMovie08 . Thanks Greg

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HT4906 deleting photos in photo stream Stuck in Yahoo mail Applications Attachments

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Sorry - I no idea what your question is or what it has to do with iPhoto - please try again and give details but stick to iphoto issues - no Yahoo mail issues - no Adobe Reader issues - no Safari issues
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Mail application freezing / crashing when sending mail

I've posted about this in other threads too, but decided to post about it as a new thread to see if anyone else has also experienced this.
I upgraded by first gen iPhone to firmware 2.0, and in general everything seems to be working fine with the exception of the minor lag issues that others have also reported when typing messages or selecting items in some scenarios.
The one annoying thing I have noticed though is that the mail application has now crashed twice, seemingly randomly when I've typed an email and then tried to send it. I don't know if the size of the message or length of time actually played into it but they were both on the long side. This happened from my Gmail IMAP account. Basically as soon as I clicked send it showed the sending bar at the bottom and then became unresponsive. It should be noted that the mail app was unresponsive and that the phone and the OS still seemed to be working as I could either force the app to quit or go into standby and then resume, which also seemed to kick it back to the launcher.
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I think the send receive issues and the issues I'm mentioning may be slightly different. The sending issue (based on another thread on the same subject) may have to do with "incorrect" SMTP server settings for a given account. From the sound of it, this issue will crash the app every time.
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HT4718 I upgraded to Mavericks and my mail application does not load and give an error screen.

Mail application does not work after upgrade to Mavericks.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
In the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports (not "Diagnostic and Usage Messages") for crash reports related to the crashed process. The report name starts with the name of the process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the entire contents — again, the text, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report — they're very long and not helpful.

HT4906 is there any connection in photo stream and My Yahoo mail Applications and attachments

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You will have to ask Yahoo - If you are using Apple software then that all works - I do not use Yahoo applications and have no idea how they work - support for them must come from Yahoo
LN

TS3276 How do you stop the mail application that freezes during typing of new email?

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