[MlMt] Sharing a video from Photos.app to MM not working

[Eric Sharakan]

On 1 May 2019, at 10:05, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 11 Apr 2019, at 14:52, Eric Sharakan wrote:
>
>> Hi, I tried to share a video (to attach to an email) from within 
>> Photos.app by right-clicking on the video and selecting 
>> Share->MailMate.  I got a dialog asking if I wanted to "create new 
>> mail with attachment", but when I click on the "create" button, 
>> nothing happens.  The cancel button worked great though. :-(
>
> This is one of those things that seem simple, but turns out to be 
> complicated. For some reason Photos.app does not appear to provide the 
> actual file to the sharing extension when dealing with movies (while 
> it does for images). Therefore MailMate didn't support attaching 
> movies without first dragging the movie to the Finder. But I've now 
> spent some time on this and it turns out that I do get access to a 
> file path if I “ask” the interface for the movie itself instead of 
> first asking if it's available. This was not clear to me based on the 
> Apple documentation (I might have misunderstood something).
>
> In other words, I think this will work in the next update.

Yep, it works fine in r5629.

Thanks.

-Eric

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