In the cases where the attachment gets placed in the Mail Downloads folder, that copy is totally redundant to what is kept with the message, but the one in the message can never be altered. To clarify the purpose of the Mail Downloads or other designated folder, it came about in Mail 2.x in Tiger, and is meant to allow temporary storage when other apps might be used to edit an attachment (such as with a Word doc) and then return the edited file to the original sender or others. It is not clear to me in the case where there is a weird name, how having them in an Attachments folder would aid in finding them? I have always appreciated the fact that Mail kept the attachments with the message text content. Because what if I DON'T SAVE THEM and then a week or a month later I realize I need them - the attachment - how can I easily find the attachement? It may have a weird name like lk06678334-kn.pdf and in Eudora I could kinda search the attachments folder and look at the date and use ICON view- but if the attachment is bonded to the message- then what? What if it's a message without anything other than the attachment? How to find that?
Just trying to understand this so I can find important documents attached to eMails. Is what I wrote above more or less correct? >or you hold down that SAVE button and choose where you want these attachments to go- in which case you can put them anywhere with any name for the folder you wish. If you want to separate the attachment from the message file (for example if you want to keep a pdf manual that someone sent you or if you want to keep a photo) then you have to either quickly CLICK the SAVE button near the attachment in the message (which then takes it to the folder you set for this - which is the folder DOWNLOADS if you use the default /users/me/Downloads location (not "ATTACHMENTS TO EMAILS" Folder which might be more logical.)) It seems that with Apple's Mail program, attachments are part of the message file. Just to better understand things - In Eudora (which I used for 13 years) - if a message had one or more attachments - you could always go the the EUDORA FOLDER and within that folder to the ATTACHMENTS FOLDER and find any attachment.
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