When you remove an attachment from Apple Mail (OS X 10.10), where does it go? I can't find them. Thanks,
Larry
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In the menu: Message -> Remove Attachments (at the bottom). When I say "remove attachment", that's what I mean. I know about delete - that's not what I mean. Thanks,
Larry
It's not clear to me either, Mike. I know you're a smart guy. We both can't be dense.
Larry, it sounds like a command to remove an attachment from a message you're sending. To put an attachment from an incoming message somewhere, I just open it and then do SaveAs. I need to see it anyway to decide if I want it.
Larry, it sounds like a command to remove an attachment from a message you're sending. To put an attachment from an incoming message somewhere, I just open it and then do SaveAs. I need to see it anyway to decide if I want it.
Well, like a dope I did a "Remove Attachments". I wasn't given an opportunity to say where I wanted the damn things, they just disappeared. I looked for them with the Finder, but I couldn't find them anywhere. When I go back to the original email in Mail, it says (for one of them)
"[the attachment SSICLIMS91683NH.pdf has been manually removed]"
It says that for all of them (with different names, of course), but it doesn't say "deleted" and I'm just trying to figure out where they are. Thanks for the help.
Well, after hours of searching, I think I found the answer which is:
"The attachment(s) is(are) deleted!" They are not moved to trash, they cannot be recovered. Fortunately, I got another email sent with them, but they are NOT moved anywhere, they are simply permanently deleted.
"The attachment(s) is(are) deleted!" They are not moved to trash, they cannot be recovered. Fortunately, I got another email sent with them, but they are NOT moved anywhere, they are simply permanently deleted.
probably a feature to reduce email sizes.
remove the attachemnt and an e-mail is a few kilobytes, and a lot of email services will allow rather big files, so having the feature to remove the attachment is simply to edit the mail to reduce mailbox size.
pretty clever.
also mails are basically text objects, so I suppose it's just going in and deleting the attachment information replacing it with that text. this means it's not a real file thus no trash bin to add it to.
remove the attachemnt and an e-mail is a few kilobytes, and a lot of email services will allow rather big files, so having the feature to remove the attachment is simply to edit the mail to reduce mailbox size.
pretty clever.
also mails are basically text objects, so I suppose it's just going in and deleting the attachment information replacing it with that text. this means it's not a real file thus no trash bin to add it to.
So I'm now inferring (since it's never been explicitly stated) that we're talking about an incoming e-mail.
. I received an email. It had several attachments. I clicked "Remove attachments" thinking it would allow me to save them in some folder. It did remove the attachments, but apparently it just permanently deleted them. Ok, so now I know. From now on I will open them and move them. Apple should have told me this somewhere in the help file. Thanks.
--Yes. I received an email. It had several attachments. I clicked "Remove attachments" thinking it would allow me to save them in some folder. It did remove the attachments, but apparently it just permanently deleted them. Ok, so now I know. From now on I will open them and move them. Apple should have told me this somewhere in the help file. Thanks.
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Larry
Larry
--Yes. I received an email. It had several attachments. I clicked "Remove attachments" thinking it would allow me to save them in some folder. It did remove the attachments, but apparently it just permanently deleted them. Ok, so now I know. From now on I will open them and move them. Apple should have told me this somewhere in the help file. Thanks.
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Larry
Larry
When you right click an attachment in an email, there is an option to save it to your downloads folder.