How to get Remove Attachments back in Mail for macOS<article>
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<p>Gunnar is having a problem with Mail in macOS:</p>
<p>Since upgrading to Sierra, the Remove Attachments command in Mail is no longer working. It is greyed out. My Mail database is getting larger and larger. I do not want to delete the emails (for archive reasons), just the attachments.</p>
<p>Because it worked for Gunnar before upgrading, the most likely cause probably doesn’t apply: in
Mail > Preferences > Accounts under
Account Information, you can set Download Attachments to None, which might affect whether you can remove them without having forced them to download from the mail server.</p><p>Most likely, it’s a permissions problem in the nested folder that Apple uses to store attachments. That’s at <code>~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library</code> in the Mail Downloads folder. You can enter that path via
Go > Go To Finder, select
Mail Downloads, and choose
File > Get Info. If your account name as “name (Me)” isn’t shown under Sharing & Permissions, or doesn’t have Read & Write under the Privilege column next to it, that’s the culprit. (Click the lock icon, enter your password, and then click + to add your account or choose
Read & Write from the
Privilege pop-up menu next to your name. Click the gear icon and choose
Apply to Enclosed Items and confirm.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3188048/software-productivity/how-to-get-remove-attachments-back-in-mail-for-macos.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to get Remove Attachments back in Mail for macOS
