I'm out of room on my start-up drive, and I have been considering moving the apple MAIL program off of the main start-up drive and onto one of my other internal hard drives. (I get the impression MAIL and all the eMail & stuff stored with it takes up a LOT of space!)
can anyone tell me what the steps would be in moving MAIL to another hard drive?
Thanks!
w
Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), many hard drives both internal & ex
What else is on your boot drive? Move that to a data drive first and always (music, photo, video, etc) all your user data.
Then consider moving the home folder to another drive, very easy from the User control panel (use to be Accounts).
Move the system to an SSD or SSD-PCIe
Put "user account" on its own drive (SSD maybe as well)
A data drive. 4TB drives are fast and more affordable.
PCIe so you aren't using the 4 drive bays and can do SATA III and faster (SSD devices that are faster than a pair of SSDs)
Create a lean system boot drive with only OS and apps.
In my opinion, the Mail database is pretty shaky already, and you should leave it where it is unless you move the entire Home Folder.
This tip has recipes and some discussion about how to move the entire Home Folder to another drive.
Just be sure to leave an admin behind on the Boot Drive. If you don't have one to leave behind, create one.
User Tip: Creating a lean, fast Boot Drive
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thanks for the feedback, some very useful tips here. Yes, I definitely already moved all the "media" off the home drive!
W
moving MAIL to another internal hard drive?
