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sramnani

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Nov 17, 2018
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macOS Mojave: Apple Mail Mailbox increases in size drastically after upgrading to Mojave

OK... First i was using Mac OSX Yosemite
I upgraded to MacOS Mojave from the app store as apple launched it.

POst the upgrade my mails beca,e a little slow
So i tried to export all mails and do a clean install.

To my surprise when i exported all my mails the total size was 87 GB
The size of my mail box on Yosemite was usually 22-25 GB, yes i have many many old mails from work
The size just doubled, infact tripled

Then i did a clean install of mojave but the mail size was again 80+ GB
how did this happen, can any one help me.

I noticed one thing, if there was an attachment like a small video say 10MB on the mail, that mail showed as 200 or even more as total size.
Why is that

What do i do to reduce this mail box sizes as now i wish to do a clean install of macOS Mojave
 

pspman71

macrumors member
Aug 29, 2017
42
1
macOS Mojave: Apple Mail Mailbox increases in size drastically after upgrading to Mojave

OK... First i was using Mac OSX Yosemite
I upgraded to MacOS Mojave from the app store as apple launched it.

POst the upgrade my mails beca,e a little slow
So i tried to export all mails and do a clean install.

To my surprise when i exported all my mails the total size was 87 GB
The size of my mail box on Yosemite was usually 22-25 GB, yes i have many many old mails from work
The size just doubled, infact tripled

Then i did a clean install of mojave but the mail size was again 80+ GB
how did this happen, can any one help me.

I noticed one thing, if there was an attachment like a small video say 10MB on the mail, that mail showed as 200 or even more as total size.
Why is that

What do i do to reduce this mail box sizes as now i wish to do a clean install of macOS Mojave
On the mail preferences theres a download attachment set that to none and you can download attachment manually
 
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