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<blockquote data-quote="jpdemers" data-source="post: 1933587" data-attributes="member: 117810"><p>In the past, the option key was needed to access the user's library under the Go menu. Today, on my M1 running Ventura, the library is always there, and the option key does nothing. This is why people are baffled: we're talking about different OSes.</p><p>MacInWin makes a good point about the mail libraries. Those can grow to enormous size, and if you've changed email client software, you might very well have useless stuff that's left over from years ago. I would not hesitate to toss out big files created by software that I no longer run. You can move them to a folder on the desktop first, if you're worried, and see how your mail client works, before deleting them... just keep track of where they belong. (They're usually buried pretty deeply, and an alias of the containing folder is a handy dodge.)</p><p></p><p>"Clean-up" software like Onyx might or might not root out defunct library items, and might be worth a try. I trust Onyx, but I'd still make a complete backup first.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jpdemers, post: 1933587, member: 117810"] In the past, the option key was needed to access the user's library under the Go menu. Today, on my M1 running Ventura, the library is always there, and the option key does nothing. This is why people are baffled: we're talking about different OSes. MacInWin makes a good point about the mail libraries. Those can grow to enormous size, and if you've changed email client software, you might very well have useless stuff that's left over from years ago. I would not hesitate to toss out big files created by software that I no longer run. You can move them to a folder on the desktop first, if you're worried, and see how your mail client works, before deleting them... just keep track of where they belong. (They're usually buried pretty deeply, and an alias of the containing folder is a handy dodge.) "Clean-up" software like Onyx might or might not root out defunct library items, and might be worth a try. I trust Onyx, but I'd still make a complete backup first. [/QUOTE]
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