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ATTACHMENT TAMER FOR YOSEMITE HOW TO
ATTACHMENT TAMER FOR YOSEMITE FOR MAC OS
ATTACHMENT TAMER FOR YOSEMITE MAC OS X

From the FastScripts menu, choose Preferences…, click the Script Shortcuts tab, and add your preferred keyboard shortcut.

Move or copy the Load Images script into the Mail Scripts folder.

From the FastScripts menu, choose Open Mail Scripts folder.

Install and run FastScripts, and then switch to Mail.app.

(It’s also a good value at $14.95 for the unlimited version.) Create the shortcut for the AppleScript FastScripts from Red Sweater Software does a great job handling application-specific AppleScripts, and it’s free if you don’t need more than 10 keyboard shortcuts. You might already have a favorite–there are lots to choose from–and so do I. Adding a keyboard shortcut for an AppleScript requires a third-party utility. Add a Keyboard Shortcut for Running the AppleScriptĪdding a keyboard shortcut for an already-existing menu item is easily done using the Keyboard preference pane. It should make sense if you’re familiar with AppleScript, and there are plenty of comments, so I won’t describe it here. The rest of the script is error handling and AppleScript ceremony.

ATTACHMENT TAMER FOR YOSEMITE MAC OS X

The current version (v1.6) is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 (“Tiger”) through Mac OS X 10.10 (“Yosemite”). I’ve written the script to adapt to a few different version and configuration possibilities, and I’ll try to update it if it ever breaks. When it does this script will stop working and start beeping. It’s also specific enough to be brittle it has changed from prior versions of Apple Mail, and will probably change in the future.

ATTACHMENT TAMER FOR YOSEMITE HOW TO

It’s far from obvious how to determine one of these UI specifiers just by looking at a Mail window I used the very interesting developer tool UI Browser to figure it out. This user interface elements path, or specifier, tells the GUI Scripting system how to reach a specific user interface element, in this case a button, and what to do with it.

See the AppleScript for the full, ugly details.) (Because Mail.app’s user interface has changed across various versions, and with different preference settings, the actual code is more complex. UI element 1 of row 1 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of front window The work of the script can be done by a single line that might look like this: click button "Load Images" of See this Apple Support Forum post for some details, and how to turn it off. Why don’t I let Mail load images automatically? Spammers use image loading to confirm the validity of an email address. Once I had an AppleScript that worked, it was simple to use FastScripts to trigger the script with a keyboard shortcut. What finally did it was using the GUI Scripting feature of AppleScript to tell the button to click itself. The hard part is triggering the Load Images button itself, by anything besides a mouse click. I looked for a way to add a keystroke to Load Images for more than five years before I finally found a way to do it. Because it’s not a menu item, there’s no easy way to add one.

ATTACHMENT TAMER FOR YOSEMITE FOR MAC OS

I like Apple Mail for Mac OS X, but one thing that irritates me to no end is that the Load Images button ( Load Remote Content in Mac OS X 10.10), which loads the images in a message on-demand, doesn’t have a keyboard shortcut.