{"id":80,"date":"2016-05-28T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T15:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2016-09-01T20:14:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T00:14:50","slug":"os-x-turning-off-inline-mail-attachments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/28\/os-x-turning-off-inline-mail-attachments\/","title":{"rendered":"OS X: Turning Off Inline Mail Attachments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of the Macintosh, when you send an image or a pdf document via email, you get a preview of the attachment in the new email body:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/screenshot_87-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-86 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/screenshot_87-2.png\" alt=\"OSX mail image preview\" width=\"704\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/screenshot_87-2.png 704w, https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/screenshot_87-2-320x328.png 320w, https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/screenshot_87-2-300x307.png 300w, https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/screenshot_87-2-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/screenshot_87-2-540x553.png 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a>If you aren&#8217;t used to this, it can be quite disorienting&#8230;it&#8217;s difficult to find a place to enter text into your email body.\u00a0 But <em>there&#8217;s a fix<\/em> that works on my current version of OSX: El Capitain (10.11), and it comes from the good people at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\">macobserver.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Just paste the following command into a terminal session and hit enter:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>defaults write <span class=\"skimlinks-unlinked\">com.apple.mail<\/span> DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool NO<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now when you want to send an attachment, you get an icon not a preview:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/screenshot_88.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-87 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/screenshot_88-e1472746003758.png\" alt=\"OSx Mail App without Auto Preview\" width=\"695\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/screenshot_88-e1472746003758.png 695w, https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/screenshot_88-e1472746003758-320x175.png 320w, https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/screenshot_88-e1472746003758-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/screenshot_88-e1472746003758-540x294.png 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a great improvement for my money!<\/p>\n<p>Just in case you ever want to go back to the original behavior, just change the &#8216;NO&#8217; to &#8216;YES&#8217; in the above command and run the command in another terminal session.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/tmo\/article\/os-x-turning-off-inline-mail-attachments\"><em>OS X: Turning Off Inline Mail Attachments &#8211; The Mac Observer<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of the Macintosh, when you send an image or a pdf document via email, you get a preview of the attachment in the new email body: If you aren&#8217;t used to this, it can be quite disorienting&#8230;it&#8217;s difficult to find a place to enter text into your email body.\u00a0 But there&#8217;s a <a class=\"linkred\" href=\"https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/28\/os-x-turning-off-inline-mail-attachments\/\">[&#8230;more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11,10],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","tag-email","tag-osx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/botheredandbeset.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}