Reclaiming disk space from Apple Mail
A tip on macOSXHints describes how to reclaim some hard disk space by deleting
If you are doing a thorough spring clean and want to reclaim as much space as possible, there are two additional things you can do:
- If you were using Mail when you upgraded to Tiger, there may be useless files in your
Mail folder that you can can safely remove.I cut down the size of my Mail folder by 25% doing this. The Apple
technote referred to in thistip explains how to do that. - In Tiger
Apple Mail saves a copy of some attachments in a folder called Mail Downloads in the Library folder of your Home directory. (~/Library/Mail Downloads).Depending on your settings (see the fifth and sixth drop-down options in Mail > Preferences > General), Mail.app may store things in there forever.
You can reclaim a lot of space by deleting unneeded attachments in this folder as well as in the messages themselves.
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[...] OpenedAttachments.plist is a list of attachments in emails that you have opened. These are also the attachments that Mail.app stores in the ~/Library/Mail Downloads folder. These attachments can often be removed from the Mail Downloads folder to reclaim space from Apple Mail. [...]