Gmail on apple mail taking up space

[cpnotebook80]

I have a SSD with only 120gb on my mac pro. Just noticed that gmail on my apple mail takes up 27 gb of space. I have had lots of mail over the years and same email address. Gmail online allocates only so much space for me.

I have other HDD also installed in my system. Just wondering how to get apple mail to detect new location of mail folders if i move my current mail in ssd to one of those drives. I did it once and had some errors so not sure so reverted it back to ssd.

 

[cpnotebook80]

I have a SSD with only 120gb on my mac pro. Just noticed that gmail on my apple mail takes up 27 gb of space. I have had lots of mail over the years and same email address. Gmail online allocates only so much space for me.

I have other HDD also installed in my system. Just wondering how to get apple mail to detect new location of mail folders if i move my current mail in ssd to one of those drives. I did it once and had some errors so not sure so reverted it back to ssd.

will try this

http://thenerdnest.com/2012/08/how-to-move-apples-mail-folder-to-an-external-drive.html

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

will try this

http://thenerdnest.com/2012/08/how-to-move-apples-mail-folder-to-an-external-drive.html

This is pretty awesome actually. Wonder if you could do it with only an alias?

 

[cpnotebook80]

This is pretty awesome actually. Wonder if you could do it with only an alias?

OK i can confirm that the link above works and i got my mail ported over to hdd. I tried the alias method and it didn't work.

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

OK i can confirm that the link above works and i got my mail ported over to hdd. I tried the alias method and it didn't work.

I suppose that it's less useful on a laptop, where you might need your emails out and about.