Having trouble trying to delete 42GB of 'Mail' App Data

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Having trouble trying to delete 42GB of 'Mail' App Data

Hello there, Greetings from Seoul. I'm having a wee bit of trouble trying to figure out a way of deleting the 'Mail' app data which, according to the 'Storage' section of 'About My Mac', is taking up 42GB of space on my hard drive. I've deleted the account that was previously linked to the 'Mail' app so every time I open the app now it prompts me to setup a new account. I'd very much appreciate any direction you could offer. Very Best and have a nice Sunday, Martin

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Jun 29, 2019 10:00 PM

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Matti Haveri

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Jun 30, 2019 12:57 AM in response to MartinJack1984

If you want to nuke ALL old Mail.app data (i.e. not just that deleted account), try to delete these folders (but do make a backup of your system first or at least compress those folders as .zip and put them in some other folder!):

~/Library/Mail

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail

And maybe also:

~/Library/Accounts

Then log out/in before opening Mail. Or Shift-boot into SafeMode while doing all that.

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Answer 2

Jun 30, 2019 7:39 AM in response to Matti Haveri

Many thanks, Matti. I’ll save my work on an external hard drive in the morning and let you know how I get on! Thanks again :-)

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Jun 30, 2019 6:28 PM in response to Matti Haveri

I tried that this morning, Matti, and it worked a charm, thank you very much for your help!

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Having trouble trying to delete 42GB of 'Mail' App Data

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