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How to change the default system font in Mac OS X. The same goes for such a font replacement in the username Library folder, which will even take precedence over the one in Macintosh HD Library. The smaller the text size the more of a hindrance a non-standard font will become. It will depend on the size of the individual photos, how large that library will be. The second limitation will be the available storage on the drive. The library must not fill the system drive completely. For example, the Photos library with a selection of my photos has 40000 photos and a file size of 180GB.
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This does nothing in 10.3. Seems as though they rewrote the way indexing is handled.
I am sure what you mean to say is that you imagine it won't happen in 10.3, as there is no legal way for you to tell us anything else.
Not necessarily, he could be a developer who has the latest version of 10.3 that's available on the ADC site.
In which case he'd be violating his NDA, no?
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If your mailbox names have spaces in them you might want to make the following change to the suggested command line:
find ~/Library/Mail -name 'mbox.SKindex*' -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l
This uses nulls for delimiters instead of spaces.
..Mark
find ~/Library/Mail -name 'mbox.SKindex*' -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l
This uses nulls for delimiters instead of spaces.
..Mark
Is this not the same as selecting Mailbox -> Rebuild Mailbox from the menu?
Didn't see robg's edit there. Unable to write to library iphoto library mac. Pardon me.
I tried the Mailbox->Rebuild Mailbox in Mail and it didn't reduce the size of the index for me. Only deleting the index file reduced the index size.
Since you're already in the shell, there's no need to go to the Finder, find the Mail folder and then do a Get Info on it. Instead, assuming you are in your home directory, type the following:
du -ks Library/Mail
This will give you a total disk usage figure in kilobytes for the mail folder. Run this before and after and glory in the difference!
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du -ks Library/Mail
This will give you a total disk usage figure in kilobytes for the mail folder. Run this before and after and glory in the difference!
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Library Mail Mac Calculating Sizes
Note that you must be using the original version of find supplied with OS X, located in /usr/bin. If you're like me and have the GNU findutils installed via Fink, that version of find (located in /sw/bin) does not have the -delete option.
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Larry Fransson
Seattle, WA Can't see user library folder on mac.
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Larry Fransson
Seattle, WA Can't see user library folder on mac.
For GNU find, you should type:
find . -name 'mbox.SKindex*' -exec rm {} ;
For tcsh, add a backslash before the semicolon
find . -name 'mbox.SKindex*' -exec rm {} ;
find . -name 'mbox.SKindex*' -exec rm {} ;
How to change photo library extension on mac. I had to do that in bash too. I could have sworn the backslash was there when I pasted the command into the comment box. I guess I just need to proofread more carefully.
A few comments on this:
I love to keep *all* of my mails in the actual program, just in case I want to see what I wrote to somebody 7 years ago. Thus, I have approx. 18.000 Mails in a few subfolders of my Mail.app and Finder sais that ~/Library/Mail has 316 MB. So I was desperate to try this hint.
Here's what I did in the Terminal:
[microlap8:~/Library/Mail] becker% /usr/bin/du -ks .
329076 .
[microlap8:~/Library/Mail] becker% /usr/bin/find . -name 'mbox.SKindex*' -delete
[microlap8:~/Library/Mail] becker% /usr/bin/du -ks .
284696 .
<Rebuilding Indexes in Mail>
[microlap8:~/Library/Mail] becker% /usr/bin/du -ks .
307260 .
I just want to make sure that everybody remembers to recreate the indexes first, before calculation the gain in space. I can assume now that I saved 22MB. Funny enough, the Finder still shows 316MB and the GetInfo-details are not better.
I would like to mention one more thing that came to my mind again when reading this hint: the other day my girlfriend complained that there was something wrong with her Mail.app and she had trouble with mails appearing and dissappearing and INBOX being too large. When I looked at it, she had 'View / Hide-deleted-messages' turned off and had marked thousands of emails deleted but they remained in the mailbox and were not deleted but only marked as.. Turning on that switch and really deleting the mails did help.
I wonder if the issue of some people saving lots of space by deleting the index-files and others not, could be related to how they usually trash their mails. (?)
I love to keep *all* of my mails in the actual program, just in case I want to see what I wrote to somebody 7 years ago. Thus, I have approx. 18.000 Mails in a few subfolders of my Mail.app and Finder sais that ~/Library/Mail has 316 MB. So I was desperate to try this hint.
Here's what I did in the Terminal:
[microlap8:~/Library/Mail] becker% /usr/bin/du -ks .
329076 .
[microlap8:~/Library/Mail] becker% /usr/bin/find . -name 'mbox.SKindex*' -delete
[microlap8:~/Library/Mail] becker% /usr/bin/du -ks .
284696 .
<Rebuilding Indexes in Mail>
[microlap8:~/Library/Mail] becker% /usr/bin/du -ks .
307260 .
I just want to make sure that everybody remembers to recreate the indexes first, before calculation the gain in space. I can assume now that I saved 22MB. Funny enough, the Finder still shows 316MB and the GetInfo-details are not better.
I would like to mention one more thing that came to my mind again when reading this hint: the other day my girlfriend complained that there was something wrong with her Mail.app and she had trouble with mails appearing and dissappearing and INBOX being too large. When I looked at it, she had 'View / Hide-deleted-messages' turned off and had marked thousands of emails deleted but they remained in the mailbox and were not deleted but only marked as.. Turning on that switch and really deleting the mails did help.
I wonder if the issue of some people saving lots of space by deleting the index-files and others not, could be related to how they usually trash their mails. (?)
Any help with this in Terminal it just says 'too many arguments' when you try it..and I thought that was just the US and France!
Don't copy the '%' percent sign.
Joe
Joe
WARNING:
I had serious problems with my Sent mbox (which was very large).
After removing the indexes, Mail kept crashing while trying to rebuild Sent
I had to manually vi the mbox and move half of it elsewhere before it would rebuild without crashing.
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Tony Lawrence
I had serious problems with my Sent mbox (which was very large).
After removing the indexes, Mail kept crashing while trying to rebuild Sent
I had to manually vi the mbox and move half of it elsewhere before it would rebuild without crashing.
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One thing to note is that when you perform this task you loose everything that Mail uses to do auto complete. So if, like me, you have been so lazy as to not have added everyone into your address book you will loose the ability to find email addresses by auto complete, at least until you send them a mail again.
Worth the 80Mb space saving though.
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Worth the 80Mb space saving though.
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Something very odd happened when I tried this hint. I quit Mail, ran the command in terminal, reopened Mail and all was fine. The indexes were rebuilt as I looked in each mailbox. So I thought all was good and shut down for the night.
The next day when I opened Mail, ALL of my mailboxes were gone, and there was no mail in the inbox, but it retained all of my account settings. It's almost as if my /Library/Mail folder was deleted and then recreated when I opened mail. I had a backup from about 5 days ago, but I still lost a considerable amount of mail that had been filed since then.
Any ideas?
The next day when I opened Mail, ALL of my mailboxes were gone, and there was no mail in the inbox, but it retained all of my account settings. It's almost as if my /Library/Mail folder was deleted and then recreated when I opened mail. I had a backup from about 5 days ago, but I still lost a considerable amount of mail that had been filed since then.
Any ideas?
Mac Foxmail
Rebuild Mailbox doesn't affect the .SKindex files
Rebuild Mailbox, at least in Mail.app version 1.2.5 (v552) on 10.2.8, doesn't rebuild the .SKindex files. Instead, sometimes newer messages get added into an
Incoming_Mail
file in the .mbox directory (with a corresponding Incoming_Table_of_Contents
file), and Rebuild Mailbox merges them into the corresponding mbox
and table_of_contents
files. To get the .SKindex files rebuilt, it appears necessary to delete them. Mac Mail Rule
Nice hint, THANK YOU! I saved 122,432 Kb after rebuilding all the indices (…by searching the entire message of all mailboxes for the letter a, quit Mail and checked the disk usage, then relaunched Mail and clicked on each mailbox--waiting until the Activity Viewer window was finished before clicking on the next folder. Not much change in size, only a few k, so I guess searching the entire content of all messages did the trick of rebuilding the indices).
Before:
After:
Mac Mail Gmail
Running 10.3.7, Mail(.app) 1.3 (v606/619).
Strange thing is, 'find' no longer finds any SKindex files. So far all is fine though and searches work (I really deleted all deleted messages beforehand).
Maybe the SKindex files are no longer used in 10.3's Mail?--and they were just sitting there all this time wasting space?