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Mail freezes on exporting mail folder

10.10.5 Using mail and it is slowing down a fairly new imac, 27" late 2014 with 16gb of ram. I want to make my mail DB smaller, i have a folder called Completed projects i would like to archive. Im trying to export the folder and then i can back it up with Timemachine. I do not need access to these emails very often. When i would try to export the folder, MAIL would freeze, so i subdivided the folder into 4 sub folders 1,2,3,4. So i exported sub folder 1, and still over night activity in mail showed Preparing to Export, but it was just frozen, i opened activity monitor and it had 63gb of ram in it.

I might just use Google take out for the archive, but why is mail acting so funny?


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Posted on Jun 28, 2016 8:45 AM

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Posted on Jun 28, 2016 9:33 AM

If the problem is still there, try booting into the Safe Mode using your normal account. Disconnect all peripherals except those needed for the test. Shut down the computer and then power it back up after waiting 10 seconds. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application un-installer. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.


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Jun 28, 2016 9:33 AM in response to pleasehelpmepleasehelpme

If the problem is still there, try booting into the Safe Mode using your normal account. Disconnect all peripherals except those needed for the test. Shut down the computer and then power it back up after waiting 10 seconds. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application un-installer. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.


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Mail freezes on exporting mail folder

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