On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote:
> 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. > > Yuck. Well I'm going to just consider this a bug that regressed into a recent OS update, and will file it with Apple. There don't seem to be many viable alternatives to their workflow. > 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. > True, although the intermediate dialog serves a very important function by giving you the option to resize all of the inserted options at once, to make them appropriately sized for email so they don't chew into recipients' email quotas as much (I've trained Dad not to send so many full-size images around). Thanks, Scot
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