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Q: Library > com.apple.mail folder?

i am somehow out of disk space on a mac air and i am seeing 116 GB in my user LIBRARY with 66GB in application support, 29 GB in Mail folder and 14 GB in the com.apple.mail folder.

 

does anyone know what this last one is?

 

THANKS

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), 11 inch, early 2015, 2.2 GHz Core 7

Posted on Oct 5, 2016 6:33 PM

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  • by Eric Root,Helpful

    Eric Root Eric Root Oct 5, 2016 9:51 PM in response to hotwheels 22
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    Oct 5, 2016 9:51 PM in response to hotwheels 22

    How many e-mails are in the Mail program?

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    hotwheels 22 hotwheels 22 Oct 5, 2016 9:56 PM in response to Eric Root
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    Oct 5, 2016 9:56 PM in response to Eric Root

    hi eric,

    thanks very much. i seem to have been able to finally delete the 60+ GB of mobilsync or whatever files so things have calmed down a bit as i no longer have 0 KB available on the laptop...

     

    can can i ask you how i would check this? i am on IMAP with a bunch of email addresses so taking care of archiving old email (somehow) may be the next matter i need to take care of. not really sure how i should be tackling this though. obviously this is not a problem on the desktop but it is taking up space apparently on the laptop...

     

    tegards

     

    jon

  • by Eric Root,Helpful

    Eric Root Eric Root Oct 6, 2016 10:14 AM in response to hotwheels 22
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    Oct 6, 2016 10:14 AM in response to hotwheels 22

    You are welcome. If I select a mailbox, at the very top of the Mail window is a readout of how many e-mails are in the mailbox.

     

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    hotwheels 22 hotwheels 22 Oct 6, 2016 10:20 AM in response to Eric Root
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    Oct 6, 2016 10:20 AM in response to Eric Root

    hi eric,

     

    so that was a bit of a revelation. i think the short term solution was to get this laptop some disk space so i could use it and now longer term cleaning up my email is definitely a need to do. i /am/ in the somewhat laborious process of mass deleting junk mail or unnecessary mail by sorting by FROM in the global inbox. i also have to organize some older mail so that it resides on the LOCAL FOLDER of my desktop machine so i can access it. currently i do have some outside of mail that i need to import. also some of the mail already in the LOCAL FOLDER needs to be "un-organized" in the sense that at one point i put things in discreet folders (say by year) and i am now realizing that dropping it all into a BULK FOLDER and using a SEARCH TOOL to access this is much smarter and less time consuming.

     

    two other things: 1. i do have a venture subscription for this year so if it made sense to pursue some of this with them via technical assistance this is the reason i got the subscription. perhaps there are terms i can use to ask them to help me with? 2. i have researched the earlier links you gave me and they were great. so the stanford project and the third party software are items i may be looking at once i get the mail sorted in a way that allows me to take advantage of these tools in an efficient way.

     

    i mean, just as a for instance the ability to access attachments visually would be YUGE over here.

     

    long-winded answer to a shorter answer - 13 mailboxes with a total of 28,000 + emails.

     

    THANK YOU

     

    jon