Weird missing attachments in Mail.app

November 7th, 2009

Update: I never figured out what the problem was, so I ultimately copied the mail.app file from a friend (thanks, Dave!) and that solved the problem.

I recently opened up Mail.app for the first time since upgrading to Snow Leopard, and discovered a really weird problem…  All attachments are rendered with Safari’s “missing plugin” icon.  I cannot click on the icon nor drag it to the desktop.  The only way I can access attachments is via the “Save” and “Quick Look” buttons. The problem happens on received messages as well as message composition windows.

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I have tried all of the usual suspects with no luck… rebuilding mailboxes, deleting the mail folder and preference files and starting over, rebooting, etc.  I also added a second, non-Gmail IMAP account.  Plus, attachments are fine in other mail clients.  This seems to be a problem specific to Mail.app.

Anyone else seen this before?  FYI, I’m running 10.6.1 with all updates.


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