Timeline for Why hasn’t the size of my “Mail” folder reduced after upgrading to macOS High Sierra?
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| Nov 1, 2017 at 13:58 | comment | added | odysseus | I'm not seeing any space reduction, either. | |
| Oct 19, 2017 at 19:08 | vote | accept | Rinzwind | ||
| Oct 15, 2017 at 7:34 | answer | added | Rinzwind | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 8:29 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/askdifferent/status/915856524429418497 | ||
| Sep 30, 2017 at 22:27 | comment | added | Rinzwind |
I should note I observed today that the “on disk” sizing in the Info window in Finder doesn’t always seem accurate for folders. APFS introduces support for sparse files. I created a folder with a small sparse file (Terminal: dd if=/dev/random of=Test.dat bs=1 count=1 seek=1m). For this file, the Info window shows that it has a size of 1MB with, as expected, only 4KB used on disk, but for the folder it shows a total size of 1MB with 1,1MB used on disk, which doesn’t seem accurate.
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| Sep 30, 2017 at 22:05 | comment | added | Rinzwind | @DaniSpringer: OK, thanks for clarifying. I'm afraid that without some backup or copy of your Mail folder from before the upgrade to compare to, I'm not sure what to suggest either. | |
| Sep 30, 2017 at 6:39 | comment | added | Duck | The truth is that Apple gave up MacOS, it is at drift. High Sierra is the the worse MacOS update ever. APFS is half-cooked and will just work for SSD. Mail compression announced will not work. I have to reboot constantly due to graphics issues. If it was paid it would be a scam. This was why they decided not to charge for MacOS updates a few years back, so they could slow down development and put their best engineers to work on iOS. | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 20:07 | comment | added | Rinzwind | @DaniSpringer: I'm not sure I understood what you want to check. I would suggest comparing the size of the “Mail” folder in your “Library” folder against the same folder in a Time Machine backup from right before the update, as I mentioned in my question. Or is that not what you are asking about? | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 6:46 | comment | added | Rinzwind | @vykor: thanks for confirming you’re not seeing any compression either. | |
| Sep 29, 2017 at 0:25 | comment | added | vykor | Not seeing any compression with ~/Library/Mail here. Digging into the directories you can see that all the .emlx files are still stored in uncompressed plaintext. Mail.app itself isn't advertising message compression as one of the features under "What's New" in the Help menu. Maybe the feature didn't make it in. | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 19:52 | comment | added | Rinzwind | Is there anyone who is seeing a reduction in the size of their “Mail” folder? I’m wondering whether compressed storage in Mail is one of the announced features that didn’t make it into the final release of High Sierra (the article I linked to might be based on one of the beta versions). | |
| Sep 28, 2017 at 19:31 | history | asked | Rinzwind | CC BY-SA 3.0 |