Help Me With My Mac

If you’re running into the problem with Apple Mail on Mac OS X 10.6…

…where when you ask it to copy an email address, and you go to paste it shows you this:

First & Last Name <name@domain.com>

instead of this:

name@domain.com

Here’s how you can update Apple Mail so it does the latter…

1. Click on the Spotlight in the Upper Right part of your screen.
2. Type “terminal” and press Enter (this will load the application called Terminal).
3. At the prompt type:  defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameonPasteboard -bool NO
4. Quit Terminal.

If, at any point, you want to change Apple Mail back to it’s OS X 10.6 default setting, simply enter this in Terminal at the prompt:

defaults delete com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameonPasteboard

This has saved me many unnecessary keystrokes — I hope it does the same for you!

Enjoy,

Charly