![]() But it doesn’t work at all on our test Mac running the latest developer build of OS X 10.9.2. As an example, using the current pre-release build, Attachment Tamer works great on our production Mac running OS X 10.9.1. The app must be specifically updated to support new versions of Mavericks, and users need to obtain a special pre-release build for compatibility. The same changes in Mavericks that neuter the above Terminal command also impose challenges on Attachment Tamer’s developer. Specifically, it helps format Apple Mail attachments for better compatibility with Windows users, forces full attachment filenames to display instead of the standard truncated versions, and can let users set file size limits for attachment previews (such as show images smaller than 100KB as a preview, but display as an icon any that are over that size).Īn Apple Mail email message with the attachment displayed as an icon This $15 app has been around for years and performs a number of Mail attachment-related functions in addition to eliminating in-line previews. ![]() Thankfully, there’s still a way to get rid of Mail’s attachment previews, but it requires some third party software.Įnter Attachment Tamer from Lokiware. Still no luck.Īpparently, this command no longer works in OS X Mavericks, and some more searching left me without any simple solutions. So I went ahead and did a full system reboot. I fired up Terminal, pasted in the command, executed it, and then closed and relaunched Mail. I searched through my notes and found the following command: defaults write DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes As soon as I heard the reader’s question, I immediately remembered a Terminal command that would do exactly this.
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