Updated June 13th, 2019.
Today I had to email an AppleScript to someone. The usual routine (the one most people follow) is this:
- Open Mail
- Create new mail message
- Click the paperclip (to attach the file)
- Rummage around in the box that comes up, trying to find the file to attach
- (Optional) Give up
Here’s how I do it, and how you should do it too!
- Click once on the file, to select it
- Click the “Share” button in the Finder window’s toolbar. See below. (If you wonder how I got the names under the buttons, check out this blog post and also this one.)
![Share button](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_lossy,ret_img,w_634,h_315/https://oneminutemacman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/yosemite_share_button_in_finder.png)
![](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_lossy,ret_img,w_241,h_254/https://oneminutemacman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/sharing-button-with-choices.jpg)
3. Choose “Mail” from the menu that drops down when you click the Share button. Mail will launch, if it’s not already running, and a new message will be created… with the desired file already attached. Nice.
Note: the Share menu will show you the last few ways you’ve shared something, at the bottom. Here I see two (blurred-out) names of people I emailed an attachment to. I could choose either of those to create a new email, pre-addressed, with the attachment! Think of how much time that saves.
This works with Mail, and also with whatever else you see in the Share menu. I could have sent that file via Messages, or AirDrop, etc.
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