You can also save email messages in shared Google Drives. In those cases, it’s saved wherever you put it.Save Emails is an email backup and archiving tool for Gmail that lets you automatically download email messages and file attachments from Gmail to Google Drive. This includes when you: close and reopen the message window look at a different message in the Viewer window and come back to the one with the attachment and quit and re-launch Mail.Īn attachment doesn’t go to Mail Downloads when you save it, which you can do with File > Save Attachments or by using the pop-up menu accessible from the gray header/message divider line when you hover anywhere in the message header. If you Control-click but then change your mind and just let the menu close-too late! A copy is stored the moment you open the menu.Īn additional copy of the attachment goes to Mail Downloads every time you repeat any of the above actions after having “left” and then “returned to” the message window. Open the file with a double-click or with the Open Attachment command in its contextual menu.Ĭontrol-click a file and use any contextual menu command. What goes in Mail Downloads?Īn attachment is automatically saved to the Mail Downloads folder whenever you:

You won’t find enclosing folders in that older folder in previous operating systems, identically named downloads had numbers appended to their names in order to differentiate them.

If so, you should check it for leftovers although its contents should have been automatically migrated to the new folder, I recently found I still had items sitting in mine. If you upgraded from an earlier system, that folder may still be around. Prior to OS 10.9 Mavericks, this folder was located at ~/Library/Mail Downloads. In Mavericks, Mail creates a separate folder for each download to avoid problems with duplicate filenames.

Apple mail download attachments options