How do I free up space from my mail? I’ve gone to “Storage” and “manage” and when I click on “mail” is just telling me how much space it’s taking up, not an option to clean it up. I deleted everything from 1-1-19 back to 10-1-12... but it’s shows that nothing has changed.
help!?
iMac 27", macOS 10.12
For such cases I have a smart mailbox:
This shows all large emails and then I search especially for large attachments like photos or videos.
I store the attachments which I want to keep somewhere else (archive)
and remove them from the mails => my Mail folder gets smaller!
Please see my above post. How are things this morning? I am not sure where you got your mail storage amount, but go to Apple menu > About this Mac > Click the Storage tab > Click the Manage tab. How many GBs (or whatevers) are shown for mail?
I can't tell if you tried the reduce clutter procedure I mentioned above. But, check it out. And, I found this read online. https://www.howtogeek.com/209517/how-to-stop-your-macs-mail-app-from-wasting-gigabytes-of-space/ There are quite a few similar to this one. One thing I know tho is that I would not use any kind of cleaner to deal with mail as suggested in the read. Also, I thought of something else. I have quite a few folders of stored mail, and I keep them on iCloud. They also can be kept on one's Mac. Are you keeping such folders on your Mac. Regardless, tho, I don't you'd have enough folders to make a dent in your many GB's of mail storage.
Oh, and did you delete the mail in Trash as I mentioned earlier, deleting it last?
Trash anything you don't want in your inbox, sent mail, archived mail, and junk mail. Then trash your trash mail. Finally, purge any mail folders on anything you don't want.
I did that but nothing changed... maybe 20gigs and it’s still saying 541gigs.
Follow up what I said in the above post by checking out the reduce clutter option, but don't delete something just because you don't know what it is.
It’s still saying 541gigs. I deleted 2098 emails... from sent and in box and junk.. is there another process?
Mail taking up 565gigs!!
