Comments on: Spring Cleaning: Four ways to reclaim diskspace http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/11/spring-cleaning-four-ways-to-reclaim-diskspace/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:44:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: 2020 Hindsight » Mac OS: Recapturing disk space http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/11/spring-cleaning-four-ways-to-reclaim-diskspace/#comment-328289 2020 Hindsight » Mac OS: Recapturing disk space Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:52:40 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/11/spring-cleaning-four-ways-to-reclaim-diskspace/#comment-328289 [...] with it, and a bunch of stuff hidden in my mail libraries. HawkWings helps with the mail problems, here. Getting rid of attachments on some outdated client work trimmed things nicely. Too, it tturns out [...] [...] with it, and a bunch of stuff hidden in my mail libraries. HawkWings helps with the mail problems, here. Getting rid of attachments on some outdated client work trimmed things nicely. Too, it tturns out [...]

]]> By: Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Cleaning up Mail’s Previous Recipients List http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/11/spring-cleaning-four-ways-to-reclaim-diskspace/#comment-30253 Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Cleaning up Mail’s Previous Recipients List Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:15:28 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/11/spring-cleaning-four-ways-to-reclaim-diskspace/#comment-30253 [...] It’s Spring in Australia, so I’ve been spring cleaning Mail (See “Spring cleaning to regain disk space”). [...] [...] It’s Spring in Australia, so I’ve been spring cleaning Mail (See “Spring cleaning to regain disk space”). [...]

]]> By: sjk http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/11/spring-cleaning-four-ways-to-reclaim-diskspace/#comment-2336 sjk Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:12:28 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/11/spring-cleaning-four-ways-to-reclaim-diskspace/#comment-2336 <blockquote>... backed up everything first by dragging your Mail folder from the Finder onto the Desktop ...</blockquote>Saving a backup on the Desktop? Yuk. :-) I'd select ~/Library/Mail and File > Duplicate [command-D] a copy right in the same (~/Library) folder. . . . Before making significant changes that might specifically disrupt Mail/PIM data I manually run a SuperDuper! copy script to save a sparse image file backup. That includes preference files, too. For others sorts of quick-and-dirty backups I sometimes use "Create Archive of ..." from the shortcut menu (as Apple's calling it lately) to create a zip archive of selected items, possibly renaming it and maybe later moving it somewhere else if it's worthy of keeping awhile.

… backed up everything first by dragging your Mail folder from the Finder onto the Desktop …

Saving a backup on the Desktop? Yuk. :-) I’d select ~/Library/Mail and File > Duplicate [command-D] a copy right in the same (~/Library) folder.

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Before making significant changes that might specifically disrupt Mail/PIM data I manually run a SuperDuper! copy script to save a sparse image file backup. That includes preference files, too.

For others sorts of quick-and-dirty backups I sometimes use “Create Archive of …” from the shortcut menu (as Apple’s calling it lately) to create a zip archive of selected items, possibly renaming it and maybe later moving it somewhere else if it’s worthy of keeping awhile.

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