Hi All, Mail in Mountain Lion also saves attachments in another location as well, which is much harder to find and go through to delete attachments, especially if you have quite a few email accounts as I do :-)
When you receive a message with attachments, Mail stores the raw source of the attachments inside the .emlx message file, and keeps a separate copy of the attachment alongside the message file in an Attachments folder (both are buried 'very' deep within ~/Library/ Mail/V2/). ~/Library/Mail/V2/ .... select 'one' of your Account Folders (if you have more than one account)/then... for an example I'll use my AosIMAP-ronni account path: ~/Library/Mail/V2/AosIMAP-ronni/INBOX.mbox/5457B4B6-xxx-xxxx-xxxx-etc/Data/then you find folders 0 to 9/ and inside each of those 9 folders are other folders/ click one folder/ Attachments/then another folder/then 2, 2.1 or 2.2?/ and there is an attachment (which I can 'control-click'-move to trash). Start again on another folder... OMG drat this for a joke... Heck leave the attachments there, I don't have time to go through all these folders to find any attachments to delete. If you remove attachments from a selected message (by choosing Message > Remove Attachments), Mail modifies the .emlx file on disk that contains the message and also deletes the separate attachment file. With Daniel's hint below with attachments in the Mail Downloads folder, you can choose when Mail deletes attachment copies in the Mail Downloads folder with the "Remove Unedited Downloads" pop-up menu on the Mail > Preferences > General pane. Choose 'Never' to retain the files indefinitely, or 'After Message is Deleted' or 'When Mail Quits' to delete them when you quit Mail. Cheers, Ronni On 16/08/2012, at 6:50 PM, Daniel Kerr <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > Just a little hint for those that may not be aware. > > In previous versions of Mac OS X Mail "attachments" that got opened from > within the email were saved into Mail Downloads folder. This used to live in > the ~/Library folder. (And again, in Lion, in the invisible Library folder). > In Mountain Lion, this got moved to the following location > ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads. > > This folder can take up a bit of space if not cleaned out. So worth a look at > to see how many hundreds of files may be there :o) > (I've just checked mine which I normally clean out fairly regularly and even > in a small amount of time in Mountain Lion there were about 40 files in > there). > > More information can be found here:- > <http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2012080521491533> > > Hope that helps others. > > Kind regards > Daniel > > Sent from my iPhone 4s > > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > Phone: 0414 795 960 > Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> > Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Apple** > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
