Hi Peter Correct. Basically if you get an attachment and double click it to view it then it will save to that folder and open in its associated program (eg .doc to Word, .pdf to Preview) etc. then if you save it from the email to the desktop or another folder you will have two copies (one where you put it and one in the library folder. If you then go back to the same email and double click the icon again it will open again and save another copy to the library folder. That's why sometimes you'll see the file 2,3 or more times. Eg filename.pdf then filename-1.pdf and so on. I once soon in a clients machine about 15 of the same 6mb file as they weren't aware it worked that way every time they re-clicked the file. After a bit of training ( and some cleaning up) all was good. I normally leave them a link/alias somewhere back to that folder do it's easy access to get to it to clean up. It doesn't take much for it to build to a few GB's of space. (sure hard drives have lots of space - but it all counts. And it's easier to clean up 100 files then 1200+ files as it builds up. Lol
So in answer to your question yes it will still stay in your email or your folder system where ever you file it to and the ones there can be deleted if you don't need them. (sorry for the ramble lol. ) Hope that helps. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> ** For Everything Apple ** On 16/08/2012, at 7:08 PM, Curtis Peter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Daniel > Thanks for that info, I presume there is nothing in this file that needs to > be kept other than for your own reasons? > Regards > Peter > > On 16/08/2012, at 6:50 PM, Daniel Kerr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi All >> >> Just a little hint for those that may not be aware. >> >> In previous versions of Mac OS X Mail "attachments" that got opened from >> within the email were saved into Mail Downloads folder. This used to live in >> the ~/Library folder. (And again, in Lion, in the invisible Library folder). >> In Mountain Lion, this got moved to the following location >> ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads. >> >> This folder can take up a bit of space if not cleaned out. So worth a look >> at to see how many hundreds of files may be there :o) >> (I've just checked mine which I normally clean out fairly regularly and >> even in a small amount of time in Mountain Lion there were about 40 files in >> there). >> >> More information can be found here:- >> <http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2012080521491533> >> >> Hope that helps others. >> >> Kind regards >> Daniel >> >> Sent from my iPhone 4s >> >> --- >> Daniel Kerr >> MacWizardry >> >> Phone: 0414 795 960 >> Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> >> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >> >> >> **For everything Apple** >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
