This is the developer. We all make mistakes. :) To some, perhaps large, extent, this script is one. Basically my Mom asked me how to add all the photos from an email message to iPhoto, and in looking at it, I didn't see how to do it in any convenient way. The only way I saw to do it was to start a slideshow and manually add each photo via the controls there, one at a time. So I created this script and I thought it pretty cool. Alas, I didn't see that the "Save" button in a Mail message was also actually a pop-up menu, not just a button, one that only works as a menu if you press and hold on it. If you click it it just acts like a button and brings up a save dialog. I don't think I've seen that type of control anywhere else. Call me a fool I suppose. So, yes, as it turns out you can mostly achieve what this script does by clicking and holding on the Save button in a message, which will bring up a menu which has at the bottom, "Add to iPhoto".

There may still be value in this script if you wish to send photos from many different messages, because the built-in feature still requires you to open each message and select that menu item, one message at time. Send Photos To iPhoto can operate on all selected messages at once, only pulling out the image attachments. Still, the value of this script certainly isn't what I had originally thought. It's possible, but I haven't been able to try it yet, that this script may have more use in OS X 10.3.9 and earlier - I can't remember when the iPhoto features (of any kind) were added to Mail, but I think it was in 10.4. However, I haven't been able to test Send Photos To iPhoto in 10.3.9. When I find the time to install 10.3 on a firewire drive I'll try it and see how it functions there. Perhaps it has some life left in it for those not yet in 10.4.

I did learn some things about scripting Mail.app as well as about supporting drag-and-drop in "application bundle" applescripts, and others may find looking at the script useful, so it's not a total loss. Plus I learned another valuable lesson: don't make your creations available to the world until you've had time to fully determine that it actually is useful. :)