I used JDiskReport to find what's taking so much space on my MacBook Pro, and it lists 86.1GB from my 150GB partition taken by recovered email. When I try to follow the path on the top of the program window to access those files, it doesn't exist as listed (there's no way to get to Users/macbook/library/mail in Finder). How do I delete those files or what can I do to correct the problem?
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Unable to find files with Finder
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Your Library folders are hidden by default in Lion. To get to your /Library or /Users/yourusername/Library (also known as the ~/Library) folders in Lion:
- Launch Finder and click Go > Go to Folder and type: /Library or ~/Library
- Hold the Option key while clicking the Go menu item, which reveals your ~/Library folder in the menu.
- Make it permanently visible by entering the following command in Terminal, then press the Enter key:
chflags nohidden ~/Library - 18 ways to view the ~/Library folder in Lion
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That was fast, thanks for your help
I was able to recover those 80+ GB just by deleting the files. But now I'm wondering what caused Mail to create all those files -- it seems that several were a copy of the same file, and they were really huge. I never received such messages. I'll have to keep an eye on the program to see if it's still happening.
That was fast, thanks for your help
I was able to recover those 80+ GB just by deleting the files. But now I'm wondering what caused Mail to create all those files -- it seems that several were a copy of the same file, and they were really huge. I never received such messages. I'll have to keep an eye on the program to see if it's still happening.