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Mail failed to import my emails from the previous version after the upgrade to Catalina 10.15.6. The message says to check there is space in my Home folder: but I cannot open Mail to do that! So now I have no access to my emails. Please help... Many thanks.
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Thank you very much.
Following your instructions, I believe I have enough space: but it will not transfer, still: the process stops about 15% of the way in with the same error message... Is there anything else I can do, do you think, please? Thanks again. Tim
There is no "Home" folder in Mail. It is in the Finder. It is where all of your files and folders are stored for your user account.
Use the cmd-shift-H shortcut to open the Home folder. Make sure there is at least 20GB of free space on your startup drive.
Thank you ...I have tried to work out what space I have on my startup drive, and not at all sure the number I can see is the right one. So can you please confirm how I check the capacity? Thanks again. Tim
Not sure what to do at this point.
I had what I think is a similar problem with Mail. Couldn’t resolve it so I erased the drive, reinstalled, and migrated from my backup during the setup assistant. I’m my case, it was failing to display emails and quitting Mail because there wasn’t enough space.
A temporary solution for me was to delete all local snapshots created by Time Machine.
Copy and paste this command into Terminal to clear out any local snapshots.
tmutil deletelocalsnapshots /
That might clear up some space that isn't reported as being used.
Open Mail and see if it will import.
I hope my reply arrived! It suddenly disappeared when I clicked on "link to this Post". I'm new to this! :-I
Use Go to Computer (cmd-shift-c) in the Go menu in Finder.
Select your startup drive.
Get Info (cmd-I).
Available space should be shown in the top section of the Info window.
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