Lately, Apple has "improved" several such interfaces into total yuckiness.
For example, the "send mail" action in Automator no longer opens up a new message in Mail — instead, it throws up its own little dialog box into which you have to type your mail (complete with crippled versions of ancillary facilities, like your Contact book, to make creation more laborious). When you submit that, it doesn't send it — it makes a new Mail message out of it, which you then must send "again." Absolutely stupid and redundant. When it comes to emailing photos, I've found that the easiest way is just to ignore all of the photo app's "helpful" buttons. If you just drag the photo out of the thumbnail window into a new mail message, it indeed inserts the full-size version (not just the thumbnail), and you can totally control the placement of the photo by where you drop it. Maybe your Dad will prefer doing that. > On Apr 16, 2018, at 10:48 PM, Scot Hacker <shac...@birdhouse.org> wrote: > > My 82-yr-old father struggles quite a bit with technology but loves > photography and knows enough to be able to import his photos and then share > them to family with captions. He tells stories with them and likes to do: > > [photo here] > > Description... > > [photo here] > > Description... > > etc. His usual process is to select image in Photos.app, click Share, choose > Mail. That creates a message with the images neatly stacked with line breaks > between them for typing. But recently something has changed and we don't > know what. Now when he does that, the attachments appear in the composer view > in a "jumble" - smushed side to side with no breaks. It's hard to explain to > him that you have to click on one, hit the left arrow key, hit Return a few > times to make a gap. He's frustrated. > > Has anyone seen this happen? Any fixes? He's actually a gmail user, so if > there were an extension to share from Photos.app to GMail (and that did a > better job) that would be fine, even preferable. I can't seem to find one, > which is surprising. > > Thanks, > Scot > > > > > -- > > d(-_-)b > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
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