Resizing attachments in Mail

When composing messages with attachments in Mail, the "size" dropdown menu at the bottom right does not appear. Is there a way to change the size of attachments or make that box in the bottom right appear by default?

That option is only for images.

Similar Messages

  • Resize attachments of recieved Mail

    Hi all,
    I know how to resize images I'm attaching to emails that I am going to send. However, I am frequently getting email with images attached totaling several megabytes. So I am wondering whether there is a way do downsize/compress images in revieved email? I want to keep those images attached to the mail messages, so saving them at a different place and deleting attachments is not an option.
    I tried setting up an Automator action but didn't get far... but I assume there is a way?
    Thanks,
    Pit

    Hmmm... but those pictures must be somewhere on my harddrive - when I open them in Preview and "Save as..." I can see their folder. Plus, there's an Automator action called "Get Attachments from Mail Messages". I tried to couple that with Preview to save those attachments as compressed jpegs, but somehow that didn't work.
    Really no way? Right-click on a mail message, or Script menu, and then something runs??

  • Can't read pdf attachments in mail

    Hi, I can't read the pdf attachments in mail, it opens but when I try to resize or scroll it the app crashes and close.
    The problem is new, just a few days ago I can read the same pdf attachments without problems.
    I aprecciate any help you can give me.
    Thanks

    You probably need to restore as new or from a backup. See p. 141 of the manual... http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_UserGuide.pdf

  • Attachments in Mail

    Attachments in Mail.   Why do picture files go into message as open files and text messages as icons?

    Sorry this does not seem to work.  I use OS 10.8.2  on an iMac.  Right click on desktop's small icon does not show VIEW AS ICON.  View Menu at top of page shows view as icon but greyed out. After loading full image into page, size can be reduced by selecting SMALL in top RH box, but this moves any text to bottom of page.
    One suggestion in Apple Support says Ctrl 1 should do the same as your right click but this did not work either.
    I have no trouble with icons for text files as attachments.  These behave as expected.

  • I have a MacBook Air, OS 10.8.5 I am having trouble sending attachments with Mail. Even small (130K) files don't go. It tries to send then gives up. What can I do to fix this?

    I am having trouble send messages with attachments in Mail. Even small attachments (130K) Mail tries to send, then gives up and the message sits in my out box. How can I fix this?

    1. You need an external DVD drive.
    2. There are no Mac OS X applications or other software in the iTunes App Store.
    (116312)

  • Why does "remove attachments" in Mail now remove entire e-mail?

    This is just one of numerous problems with Lion after installing it on MacBook Pro.  Every time I choose "remove attachments" in Mail, it deletes the entire e-mail and I can't bring it back.  Additionally:
    1.     I-Cal entries take forever (delayed entry) and assume I have an all-day event so I now have to enter the event and then open and edit it - additional steps.
    2.     Airport (Wi-Fi) now shuts off without warning and cannot, under any circumstances, be restarted from any of the several screens and buttons that supposedly offer that option.  Therefore, when I switch from Wi-Fi to Ethernet and then back, I have to do a restart.
    3.     The Address Book now has a stylistic but non-functional interface that requires several additional steps to look at anything and there is no longer an option in Mail to "Open in Address Book" without first opening the v-card, once again complicating my life.
    4.     The removal of arows on scroll bars means that I can no longer gradually look at a large file line by line but, rather, have to use the trackpad (which is also jumpy) try to focus in on the area I want by trila and error.  I hate the trackpad for these reasons and now that I have lost the arrows, I have essentially the same problem with the mouse - very cumbersome for anyone doing production type work, rather than just playing.
    5.     My Carbonite no longer works and I see there are compatibility issues with all kinds of other software.  Worse some of my favorite old programs (e.g. Fetch) no longer work in Lion.
    6.     The conversation function in Mail now groups things I don't want grouped (e.g., totally unconnected e-mails with the same words in the subject).  I had to turn that off for this reason.
    Overall, Lion is a huge disappointment.  It's all bells and whistles with actual losses in functionality for basic work - style over substance.  This is the same thing I've seen happen with Microsoft Excel as basic issues that needed addressing have been ignored while all sorts of pretty stuff that is pretty much useless has been added. 
    Even more frustrating is the message I got from Apple Support, which was to re-nstall Lion.  That took 6 hours and resulted in not one correction of any of these issues.  What has Apple done?  This OS was not ready for primetime.

    The "feature" I experience is that the message disappears, just as shown in Herbert's video (good work), and that it comes back after a quick mailbox switch. It has nothing to do with message sorting or anything. All my Mail settings are the same as in Mail 4.x, and everything worked fine there. Must be a bug in Mail 5. (Yes, I have reported it.)
    The "explanation" that Mail creates a copy without the attachment, instead of keeping the old message without the attachment, doesn't really solve the problem. (Sorry for my extensive use of smileys, it's not my style but sometimes convenient.) The copy should come up without the mailbox switch either way.
    Edit: spelling.

  • HT2583 view attachments is mail, my default is set to view with VLC

    I down loaded snow lepoard and now my attachments in mail can't open, it is defulted to open with the VLC reader, how do i change that so I can read attachments

    That's because you are in the active window for setting up a mail account. Either configure a mail account or cancel out so that the Mail application is now active.
    Or, download RCDefaultApp - VersionTracker or MacUpdate - and use it to set up your default applications. It's freeware.

  • PowerPoint Attachments in Mail do not Open

    I have a new Intel Dual Core iMac. I receive a lot of attachments in mail, all of which I have no problems opening except for one: PowerPoint. When I click on a PowerPoint attachment, Mail tells me that it doesn't know which application should open it. When I drag the attachment from Mail to the PowerPoint 2004 icon on the dock, it opens just fine. I do not have this problem on my PowerBook. The get info on the PowerPoint attachment does indicate that PowerPoint 2004 is the default app.
    Any Ideas?
    15 Aluminum PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

    The only thing that I could think of would be to change the open with to something else. Then change it back and set to open all as default. I had this happen before and that fixed it for me.
    "D"

  • Remove attachments in Mail

    "Remove attachments" in Mail (Lion) is disabled and I cant remove the files from the emails I have sent. it worked fine before I switched to Lion and kept my Mail folder in Libary small. Anybody else having this problem?

    Just tried it out a little bit more: The problem is related only to mails sent from Mail.app 5.0 in Lion. Mails sent through the mobile me web interface for example behave normally after being synced back to Mail.app. Attachments can be removed from those mails within Mail.app.
    Another thing I noticed: The mails that do have the problem do not show the paper-clip symbol in the list of mails on the left side. The paper-clip should appear next to the addressee's name. The mail preview on the right, however, correctly shows that the mail has an attachment and it can be opnened by clicking. I also created a smart mailbox to show only mails that do have an attachment and are in the sent folder: Only the mails sent before installing lion are listed (attachements can be removed) – all lately sent mails are nout found: Obviously something makes Mail.app "forget" that there is an attachment when sending mails in Lion, thus graying out the command to remove the attachment from the specific mail.
    Regarding file types of the unremovable attachments there doesn't seem to be a pattern. I have the problem with both word documents and PDF files. The number of attachments neither seems to make a difference.
    Temporary solution: Do not send mails with attachments you want to potentially remove later on from within Mail.app in Lion at the moment. Instead, use an iOS device or your mail provider's web interface for sending those mails. Apple, please fix it!
    Message was edited by: FabeRox

  • Pdf files as attachments in Mail

    Sometimes pdf attachments in mail are saved as a pdf file with icon other times the document is visible and fills the whole page - How can I ensure only the pdf file is attaced and not the open document - seems to be there is no reason as to why this is ?
    Using Blackbook + Leopard latest updates

    Don't understand the reply above; I assume it's for another thread.
    Not to worry: Mail will show you the pdf if it can but when you send it the file will be attached. If the other person's mail reader can view attachments inline then it will and there's nothing you do about that.

  • How do i open winmail.dat attachments in mail

    How do i open winmail.dat attachments in mail ?

    Having problems with Winmail.dat attachments?  This is really Windows problem but their hubris will not allow them to admit it. 
    Windows does have a global fix for this problem but it is not a general patch - in their KB there is a fix for Exchange servers which cause the winmail.dat problem but most users don't know about it or have it implemented. 
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138053http://
    Here is a solution that Apple users can get for $30.  An Austrian program and APP called Letter Opener http://www.creativeinaustria.com/http:// is the solution to seamlessly opening Winmail.dat files. 

  • While saving multiple attachments from mail, files with same name are added and not replaced

    While saving Multiple Attachments from Mail, existing file with same name are not overwritted but new files are added in the folder.

    Bjørn Larsen a écrit:
    Hi all
    Hope to get some help with Elements Organizer.
    I have 12-15 years of digital photos that I now want to import into my newly aquirede Adobe Elements Organizer / Photoshop. Since my Nikon names the files with continous numbers from 0001 to 9999 I have multiple files with the same name although they are not alike at all. My previous software had no problems with that since I keep the photos in separate file folders based on import date. I generally import photos after each event and so name the folder with the date and some event info (e.g. 2014.12.24 - Christmas at grandparents).
    That is a common situation, I have the same limitation for files not going over 9999 on my Canons...
    Now - when I import my photos into Elements Organizer I get a lot of error messages with "same name exist .....) Hmmmmmmm
    Please sate the exact wording of the error message, I have never seen a message stating 'same name exist...' or equivalent; only messages about files already in the catalog. Files already in the catalog mean that some files have the same 'date taken' and file size in Kb.
    Any suggestions. I'm using a mac and tried to rename files based on date taken. The mac can do that but it takes ages to go into each folder and run the renaming script there.
    I also use a similar folder creation scheme (such a date naming is the default for the downloader). That way I never get a message about duplicates for the same file names.
    However - I can't be the first or only person with this problem so I figure that some workaround must be known out there. Maybe the import action can recognize date taken or - well. Thank you very much in advance if you can help me out here.
    You can alsways set the downloader to rename the imported files with a unique new name, there are many options in the 'advanced' dialog of the downloader. I don't know about Macs, but I don't thing there is a difference.

  • Remove attachments in Mail fails

    Since I first installed Yosemite, I am no longer able to remove attachments in Mail. I use a POP account to download my email from a Microsoft Exchange Server and store the mail with attachment(s) on my iMac. The email plus attachments(s) are now physically in a folder - not the Inbox - on the hard disk of my iMac. They are no longer on the server. I drag (or save) the attachment (no problem) to the desktop or an OS X folder. But now when I try "Remove Attachments" within Mail to discard the attachment, leaving only the email text, the menu choice Messages->Remove Attachments is grey not black and thus unavailable. What is going on? Why does this no longer work? I also have tried dragging the file to one of my iCloud email folder - not the Inbox - but that does not work either. This used to work under Mavericks but no longer. But it should be there because the menu choice still exists. I get this behavior on my iMac at work and also on my iMac at home. Both iMacs are running OS X 10.10.1.
    Many thanks to anyone who can help solve this problem.

    Just tried it out a little bit more: The problem is related only to mails sent from Mail.app 5.0 in Lion. Mails sent through the mobile me web interface for example behave normally after being synced back to Mail.app. Attachments can be removed from those mails within Mail.app.
    Another thing I noticed: The mails that do have the problem do not show the paper-clip symbol in the list of mails on the left side. The paper-clip should appear next to the addressee's name. The mail preview on the right, however, correctly shows that the mail has an attachment and it can be opnened by clicking. I also created a smart mailbox to show only mails that do have an attachment and are in the sent folder: Only the mails sent before installing lion are listed (attachements can be removed) – all lately sent mails are nout found: Obviously something makes Mail.app "forget" that there is an attachment when sending mails in Lion, thus graying out the command to remove the attachment from the specific mail.
    Regarding file types of the unremovable attachments there doesn't seem to be a pattern. I have the problem with both word documents and PDF files. The number of attachments neither seems to make a difference.
    Temporary solution: Do not send mails with attachments you want to potentially remove later on from within Mail.app in Lion at the moment. Instead, use an iOS device or your mail provider's web interface for sending those mails. Apple, please fix it!
    Message was edited by: FabeRox

  • Sending photo attachments from Mail to Gmail

    I've been sending photo attachments via Mail for years and haven't had trouble until recently. Now I'm getting complaints from Gmail users that the attachments come through as embedded files. I guess on the Gmail end, they don't see it listed out as an attachment, but as part of the mail body. What's going on here?
    I attach files same as I always have - by clicking on "attach", then selecting the file(s) I want to attach. I always leave "send windows friendly attachments" selected (although in an experiment, I tried sending it without clicking that, and the images came over all stretched out and shrunken in a very strange way).
    I can't think of what would be happening, but I'm assuming it's something in either the way Mail or Gmail is treating the photos - and I'd like to have them come through as attachments, rather than embed files (I'm a photographer and have heard from some of my clients that the embed is a pain - they have to "save as" right click on each image rather than just select "save attachments" or something).
    Any ideas??

    Send to these recipients using only Plain Text, and all should be well. To test choose a message you previously sent from the Sent mailbox, open, click on Message in the menubar, choose Send Again, then click on Format and choose Make Plain Text.
    Rich Text as received by those using Outlook or Outlook Express, as two examples, will see the RTF as HTML, and the attachments will appear embedded -- although they are not.
    Ernie

  • Can't open attachments in mail

    Mac OSX 10.9.4
    Can't open any attachments in mail by double clicking. Was able to do previously. Now need to click on attachments, download, then open from application (word, acrobat, excel, etc). Even when attachment is in downloads folder, double click will not open file (any file - pdf, word, excel, etc)
    Help - thanx

    Whats the answer please?
    - cause I have the same problem

Maybe you are looking for