Trouble with attachments in mail

There is no way anymore for me to attach a file in mail (under OS X Mountain Lion; Google IMAP account type):
- when using the attachment button, once a file selected, I clicked on "Choose File" and I just get nothing attached to the email;
- when drag and dropping the file into the email, it gets apparently attached but the receiver gets an empty file.
Did anyone experienced the same? How to fix this?

It is just the way that Mail handles some types of files. pictures, pdfs and a few others.

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