On 05/01/2006, at 12:17 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
Where does Mail store attachments? If I "Save" an attachment I can
put it where I wish, if it is a picture it goes onto another hard
drive. Subsequently the attached picture still seems to show up in
the email when it is reopened even a long time later. In the Mail
Preferences setting I have set to "Delete unedited downloads" when
the email is deleted so presumably there must be a huge cache of
downloads kept secretly somewhere by Mail. A search of all the
obvious places has not revealed this.
Can anyone enlighten me on this, please?
Severin Crisp
Hi Severin,
Generally speaking, the messages are stored as .emix files, in a Mail
folder located:
Macintosh HD:Users:<username>:Library:Mail
Message enclosures or attachments are stored in a separate Mail
Downloads folder at the same level.
The Mail Downloads folder is not the primary location of attachments
to emails -- attachments reside in the mailbox (including Inbox),
thus within the Messages folder of the mailbox, and generally are
only seen in the downloads folder if opened by another application
other than mail. The preference for how long a copy stays in the
Downloads folder can be set in Mail Preferences/General.
Cheers,
Ronni
