When I assess my computer's storage, it records that my mail app is using nearly 10GB of space. I do not want to use my mail app. How can I delete the app and associated files?
All the options online that I've found seem out of date for my operating system.
I'm using a MacBook Pro, 2016
macOS Monterey 12.1
thanks!
MacBook Pro
You may need to reindex Spotlight. That’s where that information is gathered.
If that doesn’t resolve the issue, delete everything in the ~/Library/Mail folder.
Also, look in ~/Library/Containers. Delete the Mail containers.
That’s the only places Mail stores data.
You may need to reindex Spotlight. That’s where that information is gathered.
If that doesn’t resolve the issue, delete everything in the ~/Library/Mail folder.
Also, look in ~/Library/Containers. Delete the Mail containers.
That’s the only places Mail stores data.
EDM_EDM_EDM wrote:
When I assess my computer's storage, it records that my mail app is using nearly 10GB of space. I do not want to use my mail app. How can I delete the app and associated files?
All the options online that I've found seem out of date for my operating system.
I'm using a MacBook Pro, 2016
macOS Monterey 12.1
thanks!
If one is referencing the Apple Mail Application - the application itself can not be removed or delated - period.
Apple Mail is built into and is part of the Operating System Monterey macOS 12 and every earlier version of macOS / OS X back to, when I first started using Apple Computer with OS X 10.4 Tiger.
One can remove the Application from the Disk but the Application will still reside in the Applications Folder
I opened the Mail App (but did not actively use it) and it must have downloaded the files at that point... I have deleted/deactivated all associated email accounts from preferences and cannot even find any of the mail messages and yet the storage amount remains the same....
I ran into the same thing but my storage was listed as 400 GB on a 500 GB internal SSD. What it was was I had rebuild the mailboxes several times in the past trying to get smart mailboxes to work correctly and that added enormous amounts of apparent storage, so much so that I could clone my 500 GB drive to an external 1TB drive.
The culprits were folders titled Data_Rebuild. The only way I could find them was to use the shareware app Find Any File to search for folders like this:
1 - Name is Data_Rebuild
I then dragged those folders from the search results window to the Trash bin and emptied it. They were recreated but with zero size.
FAF can search areas that Spotlight can't like invisible folders, system folders and packages.
Give that a try and see if there's any improvement to the storage situation on your Mac.
If you aren’t using Mail, how did you amass 10GB of data. Did you use it at one time, and now do not?
If you remove an email account from Mail’s Preferences, it should delete all the associated messages stored on your Mac.
thanks for your assistance--FAF is a pretty cool program. Unfortunately, after running the search no Data_Rebuild folders were found.
Search continues...
thanks! that seems to have done it... tried this solution yesterday and missed the files. today, it worked!
x EDM
deleting MAIL App + files
