Saving photo attachments in mail.app

Can anyone please tell me if there is a simple way to save multiple photo attachments from several emails to one folder in one go?
I am hoping that I don't have to go to each individual email & save

Not wanting to start another topic, is anyone else having issues with the new Lion Mail?
First: is there any way to turn off the jps in the image and just send them as a file? I hate remembering to make sure the cursor is set to the best location for the inserted images
The problem I see is sending more than one file. Im not so sure the second plus file is attached.
I know for sure the image of the scond file is normally half gone.
Thanks for any insight and help.

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Saving photo attachments from Mail to iPhone

Merry Christmas
The MMS debate and iPhone rages on and many iPhone fanatics say 'why do you need MMS when you can send/receive photos as email attachments...?'. If that's the case, is there any way you can save a photo received as an email attachment to the 'Photo' section of the iPhone? Is this yet another oversight from our friends in Apple or have I just not discovered how to do it? If the former, it seems the only way to keep photo attachments is to archive all emails with photo attachments - neither intuitive, functional nor an effective use of memory...or I could save emailed photos into iPhoto when next on my iMac and transfer them over to my iPhone when it's docked, but this somehow seems to underline the iPhone's lack of functionality in this area (a rarity given the rest of it is absolutely superb - aside from the MMS issue, lack of video & non-ability to forward/send multi-SMSs).
Grateful for any advice, or do just have to write some feedback to Apple and just grin and bare it?
Cheers

Sorry to say this but yeah this one is for the feedback page, there is no way to save the photos from the Mail app to the Photo app

Saving MP3 attachments in Mail.app on Touch

Is there a way to save these attachments to your music library directly on the device?

Not wanting to start another topic, is anyone else having issues with the new Lion Mail?
First: is there any way to turn off the jps in the image and just send them as a file? I hate remembering to make sure the cursor is set to the best location for the inserted images
The problem I see is sending more than one file. Im not so sure the second plus file is attached.
I know for sure the image of the scond file is normally half gone.
Thanks for any insight and help.

IPod Touch 2.0 bug saving photos from e-mails

Hi all
Has anyone else had problems saving photo attachments in e-mails on the Touch with 2.0 software. I received an e-mail with 5 jpeg photo attachments. Opened them up to view them, decided to save them.
When I selected "Save 5 images" the Touch appeared to freeze for a bit (though it may have been converting the jpegs to thumbnail format I guess?) and then when I went to Photo to look at them, the app wouldn't open. It started, displayed a blank Event list and then bombed out back to the help screen...
Rebooting the Touch and saving them individually allowed me to save 4 of the 5 - but oddly the 5th image, although not in the event and viewable IS the image used to tag the event.
Quite odd.
Has anyone else been able to save photos reliably from e-mails into their photo library on their Touch 2.0?

Hi,
I had this multiple times. Two times I was able to fix this in "just" remove MobileMe and the Exchange account. But this time the problem continues to exist. I've worked around this in using IMAP for E-Mail and Exchange for Contacts/Appointments. However since we're using PostPath instead of "real" Exchange contacts won't sync anyway.
Since I don't want to restore my whole iPod once a day I will stay with the IMAP workaround and hope that this will be fixed in 2.0.1

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.

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

Error opening or saving certain attachements in Mail.app

I have encountered a problem with certain attachments in Mail.app. I couldn't find any solution on the Internets, but I eventually figured it out and thought I should post it here.
This has been a rare issue (only happened twice so far) and may be related to OmniGraffle files.
The problem: When clicking to open the attachment or trying to save the attachment, I got the error: Mail was unable to save the attachment “file.name” to disk. Please verify your downloads folder exists and is writable.
The solution:
1. I found the message in the mail folder.
2. I made a copy of it (just to be safe) and opened the copy in TextEdit.
3. Within that message, I found the following header marking the start of the offending file:
--Apple-Mail-4-912721465
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=file.extension.zip
Content-Type: application/zip;
x-mac-auto-archive=yes;
name="file.extension.zip"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
4. I changed both references to "file.extension.zip" to just "file.zip"
5. Save and double-click on the file to open it in Mail.app
6. Now the offending file should appear as a folder and you can open and save it. The file you really want access to is within this folder.
Notes: Both times my problem was with an OmniGraffle file. Maybe this is a clue, or maybe not. Also, I believe the problem has something to do with the file being zipped (or the way Mail.app handles .zip files), but have no proof!
I have no idea why this problem is occurring, but if anyone has anything to add, please do-- I'm posting here mainly to share a strange solution to a strange problem. The more info the better.

These permissions bugs in Lion are pretty prevalent and I've had to reset a lot of application defaults since migrating between machines. Do the following and let me know if it works:
Copy your Mail and Mail Downloads folders in ~/Library/ ( where "~" is referring to your User). Paste these folders your copied into something on your desktop as a back up.
Then navigate to ~/Library/Preferences and find the two .plist files named, "com.apple.mail.plist" and "com.apple.mail.plist.lockedfile" and delete them.
Relaunch Mail.
Relaunching should cause a new .plist file to generate that reads as defualt and using the contents of your ~/Library/Mail folder your OS X Mail shoudl look like it did.
I have issues changing prefs in mail and seem to have a bigger bug at work since I continually have to trash my mail.plist once a week or else I can't connect to my SMTP server. But this always works and I get rid of the, "...writing preferences to your disk has failed..." message.

Saving photo attachments

I can't figure out how to save photo attachments from email. I've searched the user's manual and various websites for the right answer to this. I've tried tapping and holding on the photo. I've tried bringing up the menu with the attachment open. None of it has worked. Can anyone help? Thank you!

I have provided some steps to assist with saving photo attachments. Hope this helps!
1. From the home screen, select Messaging.
2. Select a contact / mobile number.
3. Select and hold the message.
4. Select one of the following message options.
Depending upon message / attachment type, the available options will vary.
Attached items
Provides option to save attachments
I also provided a link for additional information. Click here http://search.vzw.com/?do=viewdoc&id=35227

Ipad2 won't open attachments in mail app

I have an iPad 2 on 5.0.1. I am unable to open photos, docs or PDF files that are sent to me via email. These same files open fine on my iPhone and Mac.
On the iPad the attachments have an arrow on them. One click on it and a fast wheel spins but nothing opens. A click and hold does nothing.
What am I missing here?

How about something really crazy and unheard of?
I have two email accounts with Google Mail. Both are the only ones set up in the Mail app inside my iPad2. One would load everything: .jpeg, .docx, .pdf, and everything. The other would not.
I tried hard reset multiple times, deleting both email accounts and hard resetting. I cut all processes using SBSettings and killed all processes related to mail. So I have nothing running now, and I deleted all of the readers (Adobe Reader, Goodreader, Doc to Go, Quick Office), and other apps I had added.
Now I have nothing running and no apps installed.
Then I set up mail again from the bottom, as if the iPad came in the mail today. One gmail account still automatically opens and previews .jpg attachments, and show .doc, .pdf attachments with their respective icons. THE OTHER GMAIL ACCOUNT IN THE SAME iPAD MAIL APP DOES NOT OPEN THE SAME MESSAGES I HAVE FORWARDED TO BOTH. I would see an arrow pointed down in the icon inside that "faulty" mail account, and the name of the attachment below the icon. I have pressed my finger a gadzillion times on those icons, only to see the spinning wheel briefly and nothing. Holding them down would do nothing, and i can't open in other apps.
The wackiest thing is... when I hit forward (by tapping the curved arrow at the top), I get a drop-down choice list: "INCLUDE" and "DON'T INCLUDE" attachments. When I tap on INCLUDE, .jpg files immediately load and show in the reply message, only two of four .pdfs load and open, but no .docx attachments would.
How would we be supposed to troubleshoot or fix something like this?

Problems with pdf attachments in Mail.app

Any pdf attachment in Mail.app says it's empty and when I double click it says it can't be opened ´cause it's empty. The thing is on Windows using Thunderbird (yes I know, I've spoken the name that can't be spoken) the same attached pdf shows normally.
I have no antivirus in the mac, or any type of filtering. In fact, Mavericks was clean installed about a month ago. Attachments arrive from Gmail. From the Gmail web interface, the file is fine and opens normally.
Any ideas?

Hi Krischi,
sounds good (for you).
What do you mean exactly by "deleted iCloud"?
I do experience the problem not only with my iCloud mail account, but with all others also.
Are you sure you have 7.0"3"? For me it says 7.02 is the newest and current version.
Brgds,
Peter
Hi Peter,
Writing my post I made an mistake! I deleted my app CloudOn instead of iCloud and as soon I did it, I could handle my PDF attachment as before using iOS5.x!
The reason for this might be the fact, that CloudOn currently, according to the AppStore, is not upgraded to iOS 7.0.2!
Regarding iOS 7.0.3 it was a typo! I'm using 7.0.2
Hope that helps
Christian

I am having trouble with photo attachments in mail

When i attach photos from Lightroom into my mail messages, they are embedded and do not appear as attachments. When others receive the email, the pictures are embedded and can only be copied but cannot be used or edited like a normal attachment. When I control click on the embedded photos in my mail message and select show as icon, I get a very small thumbnail and not the the full size phot that I want.
When I use other email programs (Sparrow), I do not have that problem

You correct it by leaving Bridge alone until it finishes rebuilding its cache, overnight if necessary.

Fun? with Photo Attachments in Mail

Hello. I have always wondered just how photo attachments arrived at a Windows user computer.
After reading an article in the April 2009 Macworld (Mac911), I decided to try a few tests as follows:
(I would really appreciate any comments for other suggestions--I imagine a lot of Mac users are are also concerned about it).
1--I first tried the one recommended in the article by making a Zip file as follows:
I dragged a picture from iPhoto to my Desktop. I then went into FILE in the Finder and clicked on COMPRESS.
I then composed a message in Mail and using the attach feature at the top of the message, attached the photo to the message and sent it to the Windows user.
He indicated it did not work that well, too much 'fiddling' to get it useable.
2--I then went into iPhoto, highlighted a photo, clicked on the email function in iPhoto and sent it off.
Windows guy says still not that good.
3--I then tried simply dragging a photo first from iPhoto to the desktop, then dragged it into a message I had composed on Mail and sent it. That way didnt seem good for him either.
4--**This is the one that he seemed happy with:
I dragged the photo from iPhoto on to my desktop. I then composed an email message in Mail and using the 'attach' feature in Mail, attached the photo from the desktop into my Mail message.
He indicated that was the one he preferred by a long shot.
However, it is a bit of a complicated procedure on my end---any suggestions to make this easier?

From iPhoto, click to send as before. But prior to sending, click on Format in the menubar of Mail, and select Make Plain Text. In addition, it would be best to set iPhoto NOT to add the Titles or Descriptions beneath the photo. Have the photo or photos be the last thing in the message -- enter no text following any photo.
Test this with you friend. Not all those things will be necessary all the time, but safest anyway. If the recipient were, for example, using Thunderbird you probably wouldn't have to do any of them, but for those using Outlook or Outlook Express all of those steps would be best.
Ernie

Saved photos from e-mail to desktop. Now can't get them off.

I saved photos from an e-mail to my desktop as well as I-photos. Now I can't get them off the desktop. How can i do that?

Hello Sungal15,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
To remove items from your computer, all you need to do is simply click and drag them to the Trash on your dock.
Delete an item from your Mac
Drag the item to the Trash. Or select the item, then press Command (⌘)–Delete.
Click the Trash, then click Empty. You can also choose Finder > Empty Trash.
When you see a warning message, click OK.
OS X Yosemite: Delete files and folders
Take care,
Alex H.

Corrupted attachments in Mail.app connecting to an IMAP server

Hi,
I'm using Mail.app to connect to our local IMAP server (over SSL). For a long while, I've had problems with large attachments being corrupted when I open a message in Mail. If I view the same message in our webmail client (which also talks to the IMAP server), the attachments are uncorrupted.
If I save a message as source and decode using a mime64 decoding tool, the attachments are corrupted in the same way as from within mail. This is most clearly visible when the attachment is a large jpeg.
If I remove the locally cached messages by deleting the /Library/Mail/IMAP-xxxxx folder, then re-download all the messages, the attachments will be often corrupted in a different position in the image.
Using another IMAP mail client (Thunderbird) on the same machine to connect to the same IMAP server shows no corruption in the same messages which are corrupted in Mail.app.
I can't say whether this problem was introduced with Tiger, but it has persisted for a long time. This problem is only for INCOMING attachments; I have had no problems with corruption in the attachments I send to others.
Other Tiger Mail.app users in the building have the same issue. Any suggestions to identify and fix this problem will be greatly appreciated. It's possible it's bug in Mail, and I would be happy to contribute any information or perform any testing required to fix it.
Using:
Mail.app v2.1 (752/752.2)
Thunderbird v1.5.0.7 (20060909)
Mac OS X 10.4.8 Build 8L127
1 Ghz Powerbook G4 with 1.25 GB RAM
Best regards,
Dylan
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

The right way of doing that would be rebuilding the
mailbox, i.e. select it and do Mailbox >
Rebuild. Does that make a difference?
Rebuilding the mailbox — no difference. The attachments are corrupted at a different position in the image, but still corrupted.
Another thing to try would be trashing the Mail
cache, i.e., quit Mail, in the Finder go to
Trashing the Mail Cache — no difference. The attachments are not re-downloaded from the server, and so the position of the corruption in the image doesn't change.
What happens if you move or copy the message to a
local "On My Mac" mailbox, and open the local copy
instead?
The local copy then has corrupted attachments.
/Library/StartupItems/
Empty.
/Library/InputManagers/
SIMBL
~/Library/InputManagers/
Empty.
/Library/Mail/Bundles/
Empty.
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
GPGMail
Mail.appetizer
A quick test — disabling these plug-in components has no effect on the corrupted messages, even after re-building the mailbox in question.
I should point out again that it's not just my machine that's affected by this problem. I verified today that other users of the same server are also affected. This isn't likely to be caused by a quirky configuration on my machine.
Also, open System Preferences, and go to
Accounts > Login Items. What do you see
there?
LittleSnitchDaemon
iCalAlarmScheduler
iCal
Mail
SmartReporter
LiteSwitchX
MicrosoftMouseHelper
MouseLocatorAgent
Skype
Last.fm
Renicer
The items below the line have been added recently, and the problem was definitely there before hand.
Dylan.
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Can't open PDF email attachments from mail app. (iOS7, iPad2)

Since upgrading to iOS7 I cannot open PDF email attachments from the "Mail" app. The attachment appears as a "tap to download" icon, after downloading it appears as an image of the first page of the PDF. An extended press of the PDF image results in "save image" and "copy" options, but no "open in" option.
I have tried closing and re-opening mail, restarting the iPad, several different attachments. Still no "Open in" option.
Any help with this?

I work in a support organization and we've seen variations of this issue develop on various iphones and ipads with ios7. Oddly, not everyone is experiencing this, just some people.
In my own case, I simply downloaded Acrobat Reader for free and can read the things fine.
We use an exchange activesync email server and when each email comes in it indicates at the very bottom that it has been downloaded as plain text and to click to download the entire message. I've tried clicking to download and not clicking and I can read the PDF either way.
In my own case I can view PDF files and/or also save them by pressing and holding the icon of the PDF in the email.
The other thing one of our end users noticed: if she emailed the PDF directly to her iPhone5 and iPad it would not be readable but if she forwarded it to her offsite Yahoo account and then forward to her corporate email it would open.
I think there's definetely something going on with the formatting of the PDF (was it created by a true Adobe PDF distiller or one of the many clones?), what email application attached it? (Outlook, Eudora, IOS Mail, etc) and how many PDF reading apps are on your IOS devices?
For instance I have the default PDF reader, iBooks, Kindle, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and there may be others that I don't even know has PDF capability. Only Apple probably has a good idea of how many apps utilize this.
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Saving photo attachments in mail.app

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