Mail on Mac taking up storage -- 2024 and STILL no solution?

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tomsnanny Author

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Mail on Mac taking up storage -- 2024 and STILL no solution?

Mac Sonoma 14.6.1

System Settings > General > Storage tells me that Mail is taking up 7.8 GB.

All of the Apple help docs are saying to delete attachments, emails, etc.

I've literally deleted EVERYTHING, and it went down to 7.3 GB.

There's no option to find where these mystery files are, there's no way to delete the Mail app, and Apple seems to change where to find these mystery files so that old threads aren't helpful.

At this point, it feels like it's by design, when there are countless threads over many many years and there is no solution in sight. Frustrating to say the least.

Has anyone figured out the current way to delete these storage files?

MacBook Pro (2017 – 2020)

Posted on Oct 31, 2024 1:35 PM

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Answer 1

tomsnanny Author

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Oct 31, 2024 2:06 PM in response to AlWeir

Thanks for your response. There is no email account associated with it other than my iCloud one now, as I disabled my Gmail one. The iCloud one is not my main account and there isn't much mail going through it at all.

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AlWeir

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Oct 31, 2024 1:46 PM in response to tomsnanny

If the mail account is IMAP, you might want to check the IMAP server where your email resides and see if you can see where all the space is being used.

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