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Trying to free up some space. I am using MacMail. i have several 'mailboxes', each with lots of emails, and am attempting to move to my external hard drive. i can move one email at a time; but for the life of me after searching and trying, i cannot move MULTIPLE emails at the same time to the external hard drive. if i highlight them, it only moves one. Please help! Thanks, Donna
macOS Sierra 10.12.6
MacBook Air 11″, macOS 10.12
Sounds like maybe the last one, but 4 suggestions…
Have you emptied the trash lately?
Look for iOS backups…
/Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
OmniDiskSweeper shows you the files on your drive, largest to smallest, and lets you quickly Trash or open them.
https://www.omnigroup.com/more/
Purging local backups
Please note that although this doesn't affect your remote backup from Time Machine, this will get rid of the redundancy (at least until the next Time Machine backup) that a local backup disk will provide. If you need such redundancy or are worried about the recovery of your data then you would be best served to let macOS determine when to purge these files.
Start Terminal from spotlight.
At the terminal type tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates.
Hit enter.
Here, you'll now see a list of all of the locally stored Time Machine backup snapshots stored on your disk.
Next you can remove the snapshots based on their date. I prefer to delete them one at at time. Once my "System" disk usage is at an acceptable level, I stop deleting but you can delete all of them if you want to reclaim all of the disk space.
Back at the terminal, type tmutil deletelocalsnapshots YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS , where will be one of the dates from your backup. This will be in the form of xxx-yy-zz-abcdef. Try to start with the oldest snapshot.
Hit enter.
Repeat for as many snapshot dates as required
http://www.thagomizer.com/blog/2018/03/27/cleaning-up-time-machine-local-snapshots.html
Select top eMail you want tho move, hold Shift key when selecting bottom one you want to move.
yes, i tried that, but it only moves the last one ... not all of them :(
Thank you for trying though !
Donna
Still hoping for suggestions !
How about if you select All using CMD+a keys? ThenRight Click & choose Copy to...
In Finder's Go Menu>Goto Folder, paste this in...
~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
Press enter.
you are being so patient with me :)
--top of window says 'Backup' ... but
--there is nothing listed ...
:(
is it possible for me to call you on your phone?
...or would you object ?
OK. :)
Well, car broke down & missed the appointment... luckily it broke down right in front of my house, so if you're still up...
System is up to 171GB... only 2GB left
looking at 'All My Files' ... almost everything in there is a duplicate :(
duplicates in 'All My Files' ... but if i look at 'Documents' ... there is only 1 copy in there ...
--yes i have another External Hard Drive ...
do i need to have it connected now ?
--i assume that Find any File is something i need to download ?
i'll try now
Glad things are backed up, I think we need another external drive to intall to & boot from to really solve this, but an Apple store may be quicker.
OK, I wish we had a spare external drive to play with. :)
Wow, great to hear, thanks for the info!
Take care my friend! :)
moving mac mail to external hard drive
