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Just use ~/Library/Images/People/
Authored by: Moofisto on Mar 07, '03 10:36:39PM

Yes, as dubmaster said, you can just put your pics of people here.

Format: uncompressed or LZW-compressed 8-bit TIFF
Filename: yourfriends@email.address.com.tiff (just add .tiff, not .tif, to the email address)

Mail.app and Address Book pick these up. This is the old school 10.1 method that still works, fortunately.

128x128 pixel tiffs work best for me. They show up nicely in Mail.app (resized to 64x64), and reasonably well in Address Book (to 48x48). If you're really anal about a particular image in the Address Book, you can still add a 48x48 custom image by using the Address Book picture-adding function, which goes to the cryptic ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/Images/ directory of TIFFs. A custom image will then be preferred by Address Book over the image you have in ~/Library/Images/People/.

Also, have a look at MailPictures, a Mail.app add-on which lets Mail.app automatically trade the Mail/AddressBook pics of users when they mail each other. MailPictures uses the newer, more cryptic 10.2 AddressBook/Images method.



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Just use ~/Library/Images/People/
Authored by: Tim Golden on Mar 11, '03 10:17:29PM

Bingo! Best thing since sliced bread.



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