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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1826798" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Nope and nope. You might have a bit more storage, but not more memory, and I doubt it would run faster as a computer at all, at least not so that you might know. Mail, unless you have huge attachments to a lot of messages, doesn't take that much room. </p><p></p><p>However, if you want to clean up mail, you can sort in two different ways to get rid of "blocks" of them at a time. First is to sort by the "From" column and get rid of any that are from any account you know never sends anything you want to keep. Mark the top one then scroll to the bottom one, hold Shift and click to select all in between. Now right click on the bunch and delete. Another sort is by Subject and get rid of bunches with the same subject, particularly sales stuff. Same technique.</p><p></p><p>However, once they are deleted they are still not erased and any space recovered. To do that, open the Trash and right click to select "Delete all" from the drop down menu. </p><p></p><p>Finally, on the top bar, under "Mailbox" click "rebuild" and give it a while to compress out the empty space and rebuild the box. You will, I think, have to repeat that for each mailbox. Don't forget the "Sent" box, either, as there can be a lot of junk there.</p><p></p><p>If you think you might one day want/need one of them back, if you do the File/Export as PDF you will end up with a PDF for each email, with a filename of the subject line. That export can also be a time-consuming task. </p><p></p><p>Bear in mind that the largest amount of space in Mail is probably as attachments, not the messages themselves, so consider opting to delete the attachment with the messages. Note that the Export does not export attachments. </p><p></p><p>Given you don't sync through the cloud, you'll have to repeat the process on every device with Mail.</p><p></p><p>Or just ignore the whole thing. Mail is stored in ~/Library/Mail. You can do a "get info" on that folder to see how much storage is taken with mail.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1826798, member: 396914"] Nope and nope. You might have a bit more storage, but not more memory, and I doubt it would run faster as a computer at all, at least not so that you might know. Mail, unless you have huge attachments to a lot of messages, doesn't take that much room. However, if you want to clean up mail, you can sort in two different ways to get rid of "blocks" of them at a time. First is to sort by the "From" column and get rid of any that are from any account you know never sends anything you want to keep. Mark the top one then scroll to the bottom one, hold Shift and click to select all in between. Now right click on the bunch and delete. Another sort is by Subject and get rid of bunches with the same subject, particularly sales stuff. Same technique. However, once they are deleted they are still not erased and any space recovered. To do that, open the Trash and right click to select "Delete all" from the drop down menu. Finally, on the top bar, under "Mailbox" click "rebuild" and give it a while to compress out the empty space and rebuild the box. You will, I think, have to repeat that for each mailbox. Don't forget the "Sent" box, either, as there can be a lot of junk there. If you think you might one day want/need one of them back, if you do the File/Export as PDF you will end up with a PDF for each email, with a filename of the subject line. That export can also be a time-consuming task. Bear in mind that the largest amount of space in Mail is probably as attachments, not the messages themselves, so consider opting to delete the attachment with the messages. Note that the Export does not export attachments. Given you don't sync through the cloud, you'll have to repeat the process on every device with Mail. Or just ignore the whole thing. Mail is stored in ~/Library/Mail. You can do a "get info" on that folder to see how much storage is taken with mail. [/QUOTE]
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