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Why are photos I attach to an email become pasted in to the body, distorted in format and recipients claim correctly that there are no separate attached photo files. Also in attaching 12 x approx 1Mb photos I was surprised to find that the total size of the email generated was around 2.4Mb!
iMac 21.5", macOS 10.13
Don't understand the Export "approach".
When you use the Share menu or the Media Browser what you get are the previews of the images created by the Photos.app. What are these? They're reasonable quality 'good-for-most-uses' versions of the photographs. Basically, they exist to save you the bother of tediously exporting every time you want to send a baby pic to grandma.
That said, there are occasions when you want a higher quality or the original file. Using the Export option you have the opportunity to export a copy of the unedited original, or you can export an edited photo in a range of sizes, formats and qualities. So, sending an image to be printed, or for further editing, for instance. Just more options but also... more work.
Don't understand the Export "approach".
When you use the Share menu or the Media Browser what you get are the previews of the images created by the Photos.app. What are these? They're reasonable quality 'good-for-most-uses' versions of the photographs. Basically, they exist to save you the bother of tediously exporting every time you want to send a baby pic to grandma.
That said, there are occasions when you want a higher quality or the original file. Using the Export option you have the opportunity to export a copy of the unedited original, or you can export an edited photo in a range of sizes, formats and qualities. So, sending an image to be printed, or for further editing, for instance. Just more options but also... more work.
Well obviously there are attached photo files but your recipients haven't set up their clients to deal with embedded images.
If you want separate attachments then use Plain Text emails. It's a setting in the Format menu in Mail.
If you want full size images export them using the File -> Export command.
OK, have changed setting to Plain Text, in Photos selected the 12 photos, clicked on the share icon and chosen Mail, mail window appears with embedded photos, double checked Plain Text still selected - yes - total mail size still 2.5Mb rather than approx 12Mb. So recipient will get reduced quality images even if they are attachments.
Don't understand the Export "approach". Having selected the same photos and gone through the sequence of required commands the end point is a selection of the folder in which to place the exported photos. These can only then be attached to a new email and I am back to "square one" (?) Or if they are all placed in a new folder, can the folder be an attachment? Although isn't there a problem here with MS users not being able to open OS folders?
If the plain text approach does not work, compress the folder with the exported images or the images in the folder , then attach the zipped files to the mail. Photos will no longer be able to recognise them as images and not embed them.
Thanks, have done this, the email only shows the zipped folder (but why was the size of the zipped folder 14.3Mb and the total size of the photos pre-compression 14.4Mb - hardly zipped!!!, which means that I can only send a very limited number of high res. photos). There were no embedded photos, so that's a start. Will report when I hear what the MS recipient gets.
Why are photos I attach to an email become pasted in to the body, distorted in format and recipients claim there are no separate attached photo files.
