I am new to MacBook shifted from windows, still learning. I have gmail MBOX files from many years running into several GBs. My macbook is 256 GB and macOS and system data already taken 90 GB.
I want to find where does the MAIL App Store the imported emails? Does it store in local storage? if this is the case I will run out of space, is there an easy way out to change location from local storage to external SSD. Thanks
You have them on the mail server where your email comes from. If it's a IMAP server which most are these days that is one storage medium.
the other is
How to Access the Storage Folder on Your Mac
You can quickly access the main Mail folder using Finder:
In Finder, click the Go menu in the top menu bar.
Select Go to Folder... (or press Shift + Command + G).
Type the path: ~/Library/Mail/
Click Go.
You will then see the versioned folders (V*) that contain all your Mail data, including the files for the On My Mac mailboxes.
If you have TimeMachine then they are backed up to it as well, but they are in a hidden folder on the TimeMachine.
Thank you.
On my local SSD, macOS is about 25 GB, system daya almost 60 GB, applications are 25 GB, leaving hardly 120 GB spare. So, my concern is that the several GBs of emails on MBOX will sit on the local SSD. If they do, then it would mean I am hardly left with any storage on my MacBook.
Thank you for explaining.
One clarification: the downloaded MBOX is on a portable SSD. Will the imported emails still be on the email server? Or local internal SSD?
Will the imported emails still be on the email serve?
They should be, but if you delete them from your local storage (your SSD) they will be deleted from the Mail Server.
Mail app MBOX files: Local storage or external SSD?
