Mail taking up 200gb

[MickeyMac34]

Hi,

I noticed that Mail is taking up almost half of my hard drive. Can someone please help me work through how to reduce the size? I understand it is probably old attachments, is there a way to delete these post a certain time period?

Also, can someone help me send all downloaded attachments to one folder? I'd like to send them to a dropbox folder so that I can then sync easily with iPad (given the iPad app doesn't download automatically without opening the email.

Thanks very much!

M

 

[tosbsas]

this should help you
https://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/07/19/how-to-delete-old-mail-attachments-mac/

 

[MickeyMac34]

this should help you
https://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/07/19/how-to-delete-old-mail-attachments-mac/

Hi, thanks for the response, really appreciate it. Can I ask though, is it not possible to maybe have settings to automatically do this? Ie remove downloaded attachments post, say, 6 months? I travel a lot so having the attachments download automatically is important when I can’t be on WiFi, but surely there must be some setting to allow the computer to automatically take old ones off the computer.

Thanks very much!

M

 

[rhett7660]

Hi, thanks for the response, really appreciate it. Can I ask though, is it not possible to maybe have settings to automatically do this? Ie remove downloaded attachments post, say, 6 months? I travel a lot so having the attachments download automatically is important when I can’t be on WiFi, but surely there must be some setting to allow the computer to automatically take old ones off the computer.

Thanks very much!

M

I am sure others will chime in, but you could probably create a "automator" task and have it run when you log on or when you have been on the computer for so long. I have not done this, but it seems like this would be a perfect case for it.

 

[MickeyMac34]

So interestingly, I followed the instructions in the link above, deleting the contents of the Mail Downloads folder....made no difference! So what can I do??

 

[Ifti]

I usually use Onyx to clean my system every now and then - Im pretty sure it also cleans mail downloads etc too....

 

[tosbsas]

I usually use Onyx to clean my system every now and then - Im pretty sure it also cleans mail downloads etc too....

I am Kind of scared to use it, cause there is little info about what it is deleting

Mail cleanup and than cleanup trash saved me 300 mb

 

[Ifti]

I am Kind of scared to use it, cause there is little info about what it is deleting

Mail cleanup and than cleanup trash saved me 300 mb

Ive been using Onyx for years - no issue at all.

 

[MickeyMac34]

But surely there must be some way to do this without the need for external software no??