On 24 Feb 2021, at 16:05, Raza Rizvi wrote:
…
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.
…
So I had useful suggestions from some readers and it was Bill who was
spot on.
So the “Messages” alias IS ACTUALLY a symlink to Messages.noindex so
if you want to move the Messages.noindex folder elsewhere (while
MailMate is not running), you need to recreate that symlink. Creating an
OSX style GUI alias won’t work - and MailMate crashes shortly after
startup when it tries to access the mail store.
Here is the difference between the “Messages” apparent alias (which
I had named Messages ORIG” and an OSX GUI created alias:
OSX $ ls -al Me*
lrwx------ 1 raza staff 16 24 Feb 19:47 Messages ORIG ->
Messages.noindex
-rw-r--r--@ 1 raza staff 944 25 Feb 09:37 Messages.noindex alias
so the top link shows the “l” for symlink
So from within the original MailMate directory I created a new symlink
to the copied mail store, and renamed the original Messages.noindex:
OSX $ ln -sf '/Volumes/SSD20201/MailMate/Messages.noindex' Messages
OSX $ ls -al
total 112
…
lrwxr-xr-x 1 raza staff 43 25 Feb 09:45 Messages ->
/Volumes/SSD20201/MailMate/Messages.noindex
lrwx------ 1 raza staff 16 24 Feb 19:47 Messages ORIG ->
Messages.noindex
drwxrwxrwx 4 raza staff 128 16 Nov 14:03 Messages.noindex ORIG
Then I started up MailMate.
And sent this message. So it does all work.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Raza
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