Posts Tagged ‘technote’

Apple technote: Address Book import problems

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

apple-logo-bwApple has updated its technote on a possible importing problem with Address Book.

When you are trying to import information in a .cvs or .txt file that contains line breaks, the import may fail. The technote describes how to remove the line breaks.

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Technote on syncing Mail.app rules and accounts

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

apple-logo-bwApple has updated its technote on a bogus Mail.app syncing alert.

The alert can be caused by syncing Apple Mail rules and accounts between Macs, when the mail accounts are listed in a different order in your Mailbox Drawer.

Apple says that you can either ignore the alert, or re-order the accounts listing on all your Macs so that they match, following the instructions contained in the technote.

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Reclaiming disk space from Apple Mail

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

A tip on macOSXHints describes how to reclaim some hard disk space by deleting email attachments in Mail.app.

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:

  1. 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 this tip explains how to do that.

  2. 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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Apple updates technote on missing messages

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

apple-logo-bwApple has updated its technote titled “Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4 Mail: Overstuffed mailbox is unexpectedly empty”.

This technote is for people with enormous mailboxes (2 GB+ in Tiger) who get the error message: “Message has not been downloaded from the server, take this account online to view.”

I cannot see what’s changed, but the current note describes the problem, offers three ways to fix it, two ways to stop it happening again and one way to see the size of each message and mailbox.

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