I recently discovered this as well. My usual method of previewing attachments is to press cmd-y on the email, but that only works with one attachment, if an email has multiple ones, it might not work, or you might only get one. I love how many options Mail offers for attachments. On May 13, 2014, at 7:40 PM, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I know this is not news to many of you, but it might be for some of you so > thought I'd share it. > > I think when Mavericks first came out email attachments in Mail were pretty > inaccessible unless you downloaded them from the option in the file menu. > Well, now you can navigate to them in the body of the message and press > VO-space on them. The advantage of this method is you can just choose to open > the attachment, rather than downloading and saving it. So you can read it > first, for instance, before deciding whether or not you need to save a copy. > It's pretty handy. If someone sends me a scanned PDF, for instance, I just > VO-space on it, choose open in FineReader, and then just export and save the > OCR-ed version. > > I only really stumbled upon this a few weeks ago, so not sure if it was > always around in Mavericks or when it got introduced. I seem to remember > being able to do this (or something similar) in Mountain Lion, but I used to > be happy downloading and saving all my attachments back then as I didn't get > as many. > > Cheers, > Nic > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
