How can I copy the filenames of attachments in Gmail?
I can't find a good way in the new interface that was introduced last year:
I don't want to have to download the attachment to get the filename.
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The way I do this is to click the Forward option and then type in a new Subject and clear the message text so I have an new message but with the attachments in place.
I'd be surprised if there's a quicker way than this; entering a new Subject doesn't take that long.
Yes, you can. Click anywhere else but on the Download or Save to Drive buttons and it will open the document inline, in an overlay.
Like this:
And here you can see that the document is rendered as HTML:
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The easiest thing I've found is to select "Show Original" from the message menu, then search with my web browser (Ctrl+F) for "Content-Disposition". That jumps me to the part of the email message where the attachment (or one of the attachments) is encoded. One of the pieces of meta data is the filename.