If you're running low on disk space on your Mac, especially SSD space, every extra bit can count. One of the places you can often scrape out a few extra megabytes or even gigabytes is Mail Downloads. Any attachments you open in Mail or Quick Look gets saved right to that folder. Chances are you don't need them, especially the old ones, and trashing them will free up some valuable space.

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Oct 05, 2012  Windows Live Mail doesn't delete attachments. Select one of the messages in the message list and press Ctrl-F3 to reveal the message source. Attachments will be at the bottom, separated from other parts of the message by a blank line followed. Mar 14, 2020  Mail on macOS Catalina introduces some new features that are supposed to enhance your productivity. The primary features are the ability to block senders, mute threads in order to stop notifications from email chains and an updated classic column. In the Mail app on your Mac, select a message that includes one or more attachments. Choose Message Remove Attachments. The message remains in the mailbox and is annotated to indicate that all attachments were manually removed. For IMAP accounts, attachments are also deleted from the mail server and can’t be retrieved. Jul 31, 2013  To quickly remove all attachments at one, choose “Select All” first and then choose “Remove”. Remove from RTF emails: Place the message in Edit mode. As said, this doesn’t work for Rich Text Format emails. To still be able to remove the attachments from RTF emails, you’ll have to double click on the message to open it in its own window. In the Mail app on your Mac, select a message that includes one or more attachments. Choose Message  Remove Attachments. The message remains in the mailbox and is annotated to indicate that all attachments were manually removed. For IMAP accounts, attachments are also deleted from the mail server and can’t be retrieved.

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That would explain why you can’t select the Remove Attachments menu item, as it doesn’t see an attachment. It is hard to say why this is the case without a firsthand look. So much about email is dependent on your server, not on the client software (Mac Mail, in this case).

How to find and delete old Mail Download files to free up space

1. Open Spotlight Search
2. Type in Mail Downloads and click on the folder when it shows up to open it.
3. Here you'll see a list of files that Mac Mail has saved. These are all attachments that you've either opened in Mail or viewed in Quick look.
4. Delete the files you don't need and then close the Mail Downloads folder.

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If you send and receive a lot of email, it's very easy for the Mail Downloads folder to get extremely large. Checking it every few weeks or months, whatever is appropriate for your use case is a good idea. Mac default browser change.

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When an attachment is opened, the file is stored in a temporary folder under the email account’s inbox, in a convoluted naming scheme that references the attachment to the email. Although these files are supposed to be temporary, they stay behind on the drive and can occupy gigabytes of space. Given the complex folder structure used by the Mail app, there’s no easy way to navigate through all these folders and delete the attachments that are left behind.

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Any ideas of how they can be deleted? Do any apps exist that can do this automatically for the user?

I suppose that as long as one uses an IMAP acct, the email accounts could be removed from the system and their respective mBoxes deleted in their entirety, before adding the accounts again on the computer. How to clean up mac photo library. But I’m not clear what else could be lost following this drastic method, which would also be time consuming in case multiple email accounts are used on the same computer.

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Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Phil Rodokanakis