Mailbox file (Mbox) insanely large (corrupted perhaps?)

[Jan.W]

Dear all,

I am new to this interesting forum. And I have an issue with the apple mail.

I have a 2011 Imac on which i also have an account for my girlfriend. Because we recently bought a new macbook pro for her, I wanted to migrate her account to the new macbook using the migration assistent.

However it turned out that including photos this was more than 256GB :-(. IA closer look in the library file told me that the mbox mail file was listed as 137GB. Now off course you gather some mails in a couple of years, but my account i.e. shows less than 20GB. To me it seems that this file could be corrupted.

Could thet be possible? How can I check it? And how can I fix it? I would not like to transfer all this (corrupt) data to a new installed macbook.

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[Velin]

If she's had the email account for awhile, it absolute could be a quarter of a terabyte of info. If she's got some videos and lots of pictures, the GBs will quickly add up.

 

[Fishrrman]

It sounds like your GF never spent much time "sorting out" her mailbox and any attachments therein.

Some serious "cleaning out" -may- be in order.

It would probably be better to do this on the old iMac -BEFORE- you migrate her account anywhere else...