OS Monterey Cannot add photos to email or other apps

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OS Monterey Cannot add photos to email or other apps

Hello, since downloading OS Monterey 12.0.1 to my early 2015 MacBook Pro it is not possible to access photo's to add to email etc.

When you click the paper clip to open Finder the photo icon is no longer there ? It was before Monterey but no longer there ! Its the same for my page on Facebook.

The only work around I have found is export the photo to downloads it can then be accessed and added but its a pain !

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance

John

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Jan 5, 2022 9:55 AM

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Answer 1

léonie

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Jan 5, 2022 12:08 PM in response to redhunter350

When you are composing a new mail and want to add a photo, you may want to use the Image Browser instead of the paper clip to add a file. Just click the stack of images in the Toolbar, then "Photos":

For example:

It will show your System Photos Library:

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Answer 2

Jan 5, 2022 10:15 AM in response to redhunter350

Hi

Try opening photos preferences, and setting your library to be the system library - if the circled button is not greyed out, click it

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redhunter350 Author

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Jan 6, 2022 3:50 PM in response to léonie

Hi Leonie, thanks for the suggestion and I had noticed the photo tab on email but it does not open photos or make it possible to select a photo.

Before updating the photo's icon showed in Finder now it does not even though in photo preferences it is ticked to show in finder ?

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Jan 6, 2022 4:20 PM in response to redhunter350

Try clicking the paperclip, then:

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redhunter350 Author

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Jan 18, 2022 3:18 AM in response to TonyCollinet

Hi Tony, sorry for the late reply -- been busy other things, this seems to work OK a bit more convoluted than the old system where the photo library icon was visible in finder thus one click and away you go ! One thing I find strange is in Pictures the Photo icon is visible but greyed out so inoperative ?

Thanks so much for taking the trouble to help me -- a bit of a Dinosaur on this tech I'm afraid, much safer with a bench a vice & files or machine tools etc !!

Kind regards

John

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redhunter350 Author

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Jan 6, 2022 3:45 PM in response to redhunter350

Hi Tony thanks for the suggestion but when I click the button it does nothing -- no change it stays greyed out !

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