I'm using Apple Mail and have noticed that the ~/Library/Mail/V2
folder is using up over a gigabyte of space. I'm guessing that a lot of that is stored attachments for my email messages. I've already set the Keep copies of messages for offline viewing
setting to All messages, but omit attachments
, but how do I delete all of those attachments that have already been downloaded? Note that I've already found out about the Remove Attachments option, but I want to simply delete my offline copy of the attachments, not delete them on the server as well.
I've seen the [my account]/INBOX.mbox/[alphanumeric string]/Data/[#]/[#]/Attachments
folders; is it safe for me to simply delete all of these folders?
Thanks in advance!
Best Answer
If your mail account is IMAP or Exchange, you can simply rebuild your mailbox(es).
Mailbox -> Rebuild
to rebuild the highlighted mailbox.Repeat, if necessary for any other mailboxes.