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22-02-2007, 09:25 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Smirnoff county
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Mail.app - View as Icon by default
Hi guys,
I've been using Apple's Mail.app for a little while (behind ME Entourage!).
Loving it, handles spam nicely.... BUT
One tiny detail which really gets my goat is when I include attachments, it shows up as a preview.
Is there any way I can default any attachments to 'View as Icon'?
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"The Toaster": White 2.0GHz C2D Macbook 2GB/250GB(Mothership)/SD, LEOPARD
"iTouchMeBabe": 16GB iPod Touch, 2.1 FW
"Smirnoff": G4 450MHz Sawtooth, Debian 4.0 PPC
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22-02-2007, 09:46 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Bris Vegas
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The icon is available under the drop-down triangle just below the message header. As for turning off the preview, not sure, sorry...
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22-02-2007, 10:06 AM
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Clinically Insane
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney, Australia
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BiRD,
Well - if it's JPEGs you're dealing with, you could always Zip them up, or if many, chuck 'em into a folder and Zip that up, and the only preview you'll have is ZipIt icon.
Cheers,
cw
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22-02-2007, 10:10 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Smirnoff county
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The attachments are usually PDFs
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"The Toaster": White 2.0GHz C2D Macbook 2GB/250GB(Mothership)/SD, LEOPARD
"iTouchMeBabe": 16GB iPod Touch, 2.1 FW
"Smirnoff": G4 450MHz Sawtooth, Debian 4.0 PPC
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22-02-2007, 10:14 AM
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Clinically Insane
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney, Australia
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ummm... Zip the PDF(s) up! 
(so it's a two stage process, but you get an icon instead of a preview)
cw
AddIt: Or go to Preferences... to View - and next to: Show header detail - click Default - scroll down to Custom... and from the drop down list, select Date and hit OK.
This should change the preview to an icon.
Last edited by ClockWork; 22-02-2007 at 10:21 AM.
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22-02-2007, 10:17 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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yeh, and a PITA with the way we work. Being able to drag and drop a pdf into a Mail.app window is great, but it lags while it creates a preview.
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22-02-2007, 10:41 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Berkeley, California USA
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In principle....
It's better practice anyhow when emailing or really any kind of file transfer to send compressed files. Though it won't matter with pdf's, if you're mailing word docs cross platform, they can corrupt. Granted, it's a bit of a hassle. Consider a folder action or automator script to do your zipping.
Dave
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22-02-2007, 10:43 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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dave, we've never had a problem before! We have both just switched to Mail.app from using Entourage for yonks. We both love it, this is our only complaint Recipients manage to see and use the docs we send just fine, as is. We just get picky about how it behaves when composing! |
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22-02-2007, 10:59 AM
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Clinically Insane
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Repeats:
In Mail - go to Preferences... to View - and next to: Show header detail - click Default - scroll down to Custom... and from the drop down list, select Date and hit OK.
This will make PDFs, JPEGs, GIFs, etc - look like icons, if you don't wanna zip 'em.
cheers,
cw
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08-01-2008, 07:22 PM
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Resident Pirate
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney Metropolitan
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ClockWork
In Mail - go to Preferences... to View - and next to: Show header detail - click Default - scroll down to Custom... and from the drop down list, select Date and hit OK.
This will make PDFs, JPEGs, GIFs, etc - look like icons, if you don't wanna zip 'em.
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I hate to dredge up an old thread but... it doesn't now. Any ideas how to do it in Leopard?
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Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.4, Still can't quicklook volume icons of greater than 128*128 when icon was pasted from picture.
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08-01-2008, 07:57 PM
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Clinically Insane
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Man, you do dredge up old memories.
If it's an image you want as an icon, attach the picture (JPEG,GIF etc) as usual, and when it appears in Mail 3.1s Message window, hold down your control key, and click on the image.
A pop up menu will appear. Let go of your control key. Scroll down to: View as Icon.
Robert's your Father's Brother.
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08-01-2008, 08:00 PM
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Resident Pirate
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney Metropolitan
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Ah, so no way to set icon view as the default then. Oh well. Thanks anyway.
P.S: I dredged this up as I thought it would be better than creating a new thread.
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Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.4, Still can't quicklook volume icons of greater than 128*128 when icon was pasted from picture.
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08-01-2008, 08:49 PM
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Clinically Insane
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Gives you the option to switch back and forth.... from an entirely optimistic point of view.
I should be a salesman. Oh wait... I am...  |
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08-01-2008, 09:15 PM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Brisbane
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Pdf files are automatically shown as a preview when the file is only of 1 page. It shows as an icon when the file has multiple pages.
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08-01-2008, 09:22 PM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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ME Entourage?
I'd like to see Quick Look in Mail (previewing attachments without opening the native app)
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