I apologize if this isn’t very helpful but, IIRC, both HFS+ and APFS
have some support for directory-level compression.
There appears to be an [answer on Ask
Different](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/360120/apfs-how-do-i-enable-transparent-compression)
which addresses this: namely usage of either the `ditto` or the
`afsctool` (available via Homebrew).
Perhaps this may offer some you some relief?
Nick
On 24 Feb 2021, at 10:05, Raza Rizvi wrote:
Hi,
One of the nice things about MailMate is the great search options and
instant response, but that comes at the price of having a local copy
of your email, and no doubt many of you have multiple mailboxes, as I
do.
So on my 250GB SSD root volume I have just about 50GB now used by
MailMate and I am fast running out of disk space. So I thought since
“/Users/xxx/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Messages” is an
alias pointing at the mail store of “/Users/xxx/Library/Application
Support/MailMate/Messages.noindex” this would not be a problem. I
could just copy the mail store to a different external SSD and have a
new alias to it (called Messages).
Some hours later, having made the copy (and deleted the original
because of the afore mentioned lack of space), I restarted MailMate.
It bombed.
Copy the files back to the “Users/xxx/Library/Application
Support/MailMate folder, recreate the original alias, no problems and
MailMate starts up.
Anyone have any suggestions why this did not work?
Raza
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