A few operating systems ago, there was an excellent Terminal command that would let you disable inline attachments in Mail. What are inline attachments? Well, as you may have noticed, when you insert an image or a single-page PDF, the item plops itself right in the body of your email.
Default Apps For Gmail Attachments Macbook Pro
That’s kind of cool, but it’s frustrating and weird for a lot of people. And by “a lot of people,” I mean me. I like being able to drag my attachments around as icons, and while I know you can change a single attachment by right-clicking on it…
May 14, 2019 The Mac’s default Mail application (also referred to as “Mail.app” or “Apple Mail”) has a somewhat checkered past. While Mail.app provides a free, full-featured email client on every Mac and has even pioneered some innovative features over the years (like. The instructions above for making Thunderbird check if it is the default email client should have configured the operating system preference. However, if it isn't working, you can set it manually as follows: Launch the default Mac OS X email application (called 'Mail', located in the /Applications folder.) Select Mail Preferences from the menu.
…that’s just not convenient to do all of the time. Luckily, the command that disables this feature is working again in El Capitan, so let’s rejoice and check it out! To do so, open the Terminal program (it’s within Applications > Utilities) and copy and paste the following text into its window:
Press Return, and then instead of your attachments looking like they do in my first screenshot, they’ll all be icons, like this:
I just find things so much easier to manage that way!
If you decide you don’t like this setup, you can reverse the command by changing the last word:
And that’s all there is to it.
One more thing—be aware that if you change this on your own machine, it won’t necessarily affect how your recipients see things. For example, I put images and a PDF into an email as shown in the screenshot below:
Gmail Desktop App Mac
And this is how it showed up on the other end:
Gmail Attachments Size
So this command is solely for your own email-attachment happiness. That’s enough for me, though!