[X Newbies] Managing Attachments in Mail.app

[Mark Des Cotes]

Thanks Gretchen,

Between just my In and my Sent Items box I'm using up close to 6gb of 
hard drive space. That's not counting my other 30 odd mailboxes. Guess 
it's time to clean up. I hate getting rid of emails, luckily I 
discovered the "remove attachments" feature.

Mark Des Cotes
Systems Manager/Graphic Designer

Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd.
3308 Second Street East
Cornwall Ontario Canada  K6H 6J8
T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106,  F (613) 932-1052
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On Aug 5, 2004, at 2:30 PM, Gretchen Hayman wrote:

>
> On Aug 5, 2004, at 07:24, Mark Des Cotes wrote:
>
>>  In Eudora I was able to "Get Info" on the "attachment folder" to 
>> find out how many kb/mb of memory the attachments were taking up. I'm 
>> not sure where to look in Mail.
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Mail keeps the attachment with the message (as it should, IMHO), not 
> in a centralized "Attachments" folder like Eudora.  Therefore, it's a 
> bit tricky to figure out just how much the attachments are taking up 
> by themselves.  You can see how much space each mailbox is taking up, 
> though.  Someone else may have the nice & GUI way, but I couldn't find 
> one easily [Mail 1.3.8 (v618)].
>
> To find the size of mailboxes that are resident on your computer, hop 
> over to your home directory > Library > Mail > Mailboxes.  I do this 
> in Column view with "show item info" enabled, so I can see a nice list 
> of all my mail boxes.  When I click on a particular one, it shows me 
> how large it is.  Again, this is the size of all of the messages and 
> the attachments together.
>
> If you just want the total size of all of your mailboxes, then just go 
> a "Get Info" on ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes
>
> If all your mailboxes are on an IMAP server, then I don't know the 
> answer to getting the size.  I have a little Applescript icon that 
> appears in my Mail menu bar.  I ran the "get size of IMAP mailboxes" 
> script from it and it eventually results in an error, so I didn't find 
> out how big my IMAP mailboxes are on the server.  ^ ^;
>
> Anyway, I hope this helps a bit.  I know it doesn't exactly answer 
> your question, but it's close.
>
> --
> Gretchen
>
>
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