Thunderbird saving attachments to desktop

[John Wolf]

I am on a Mac and everytime I click an attachment and they open with
Preview, Excel, Word, or whatever app Thunderbird saves them to the
desktop. This is annoying and can this be avoided? I also use Mac Mail
and Outlook 2011 and none of those apps treat attachments this way. Thanks..
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[Reed]

On 2/26/16 8:25 PM, John Wolf wrote:
> I am on a Mac and everytime I click an attachment and they open
> with Preview, Excel, Word, or whatever app Thunderbird saves them
> to the desktop. This is annoying and can this be avoided? I also
> use Mac Mail and Outlook 2011 and none of those apps treat
> attachments this way. Thanks..

In TB Preferences, select Attachments, select Incoming, at the bottom
of the panel are your choices on where to save files.

[John Wolf]

No Thunderbird temp folder for attachments like how other mail clients work?

[Eckard]

Le 27/02/2016 02:25, John Wolf a écrit :
> I am on a Mac and everytime I click an attachment and they open with
> Preview, Excel, Word, or whatever app Thunderbird saves them to the
> desktop. This is annoying and can this be avoided? I also use Mac Mail
> and Outlook 2011 and none of those apps treat attachments this way.
> Thanks..

I already replied to your message this morning but
mozillz.support.thunderbird seems to reject my messages since February 19th.

So I try again with a copy & paste of my previous reply:

I posted a solution last year in this thread:
<http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2925221>

[John Wolf]

Thank you so much my friend as I was able to change the destination
folder to private/temp under the Mac's root directory.