How to free gigabytes of free space on your Mac using the cleaning Mail Cache

Mail standard application for OS X caches all messages and attachments that you have ever received. On the one hand it is good - you get access to all mail, even without the Internet. On the other hand, messages with attachments can take up gigabytes of space for computers, limited to 128 or 256 gigabytes - that's not cool.

Check out how much space is using Mail

Open the Finder and press Command + Shift + G. In the resulting window, insert the path:

~ / Library

Locate the directory that opens Mail folder and see how much it weighs. For example, cache Mail if it takes me more than 3 GB. Taking into account that I use Mailbox, this is strange.

Disable automatic downloading of attachments

Before the release of OS X Mavericks in Mail has been checked, enables and disables the loading of emails offline. it does not exist now, but there is another way to reduce the amount of memory used app - disable downloading attachments offline.

Open the Mail application and go to settings. Here it is necessary to open a second tab "Accounts" and remove the check mark from "Automatically download all attachments."

Go to a different mail client, and delete the folder with the cache

If you use the standard client only because you are too lazy to look for alternatives, perhaps the extra gigabytes of space will be a good incentive. Especially a lot of alternatives: Mailbox, Gmail web version Airmail and others.

Once you move on to a different mail client, you can delete the folder cache. To do this, once again open the Finder, press Command + Shift + G and paste this path:

~ / Library / Mail / V2

Here you will find a folder with the name of your mailbox - now it can be moved to a basket and free several gigabytes.

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