Two things I do with mail every day after reading my mail and deleting it I select the Trash for mail then I use command +K To empty the trash. Then once a month I rebuild each mail box. http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/08/rebuild-your-database-and-speed-up-mailapp/ and for leopard users: http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/11/08/leopard-mail-and-the-envelope-speed-trick/
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marta Edie Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:35 AM To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers Subject: Re: [MacGroup] mystery Thanks, why I asked is that sometimes you can do 'delete' ( we are talking from the trash box) and then you can do 'delete forever'. So I always think that just deleting does not mean 'Forever'. And the iPhone is another matter. There my delete and trash boxes abound ---but I will let the Apple geniuses ( if there are any anymore at all) ponder those confusions. I did pay them for the one on one meetings. While they do supply me with a chair for my height and all the other conveniences, they still haven't managed to also bring me my cup of coffee, necessary for my brain to absorb anything worthwhile. Marta On Aug 4, 2009, at 11:22 am, Dan Crutcher wrote: Marta, As you're probably aware, when you delete mail from your Inbox, it goes into Mail's Trash folder and stays there for as long as you have it set to do so in your Mail preferences. (In Mail's preferences, under Accounts/Mailbox Behaviors, you can set a couple of options for your Trash folder, including how long it waits to actually delete the mail in the Trash folder. I have mine set to one day, but many people set that to a week or longer, just to give them a longer time to retrieve a mistakenly deleted email). The actual folder that contains those "deleted-but-not-really" emails can be found at ....username/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/Deleted Messages.mbox/Messages. You can also manually delete them from the Trash folder at any time by selecting them and clicking on the "Delete" icon. When they're deleted from the Trash folder, they're really deleted - which is to say their directory marker is wiped out so that the system can overwrite the space on the disk that those file occupy. The actually data that comprises the email file may well still exist for a while and could be recovered with a special file recovery program, but for all intents and purposes, once it's deleted from Mail's Trash folder, it's gone just like any other file in the main system's trash can once it's "emptied." Dan I have my mail set to go into trash when I delete it . ( my computer isn't always faithful and stuff ends up in other delete folders), but that is a topic for another time. What happens, though, when i delete items from the trash? Where do they go? They just don't disintegrate, do they? I guess for that to happen i would have to click 'cut' or 'delete forever' it it were available. But then, where do all these thousands of messages I have deleted from the trash in the course of time, where do they live on? Marta _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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