

Yes Apple mail now by default seems to download the gmail ‘All Mail’ folder which included every email you’ve ever deleted on gmail. I discovered 15GB of gmail data in Apple Mail. This huge multicoloured box turns out to be the Gmail ‘All Mail’

I could do this pretty confidently because my macbook air is my second machine, all my photo’s are only home computer if anything goes wrong. While I was at it I went to my ‘Applications’ folder and deleted the old ‘iphoto’ app which took up 1.7GB.


I just dragged this to the trash and saved 6.6GB. To find the file just right click on the box and select ‘reveal in finder’: Deleting my old iPhoto library released almost 7 G of space! El Capitan came with a new app called ‘Photos.’ The new Photos app imported my old iPhoto library, but it didn’t delete it! They are the same photos, the entire library has been duplicated. The large turquoise section to the left is the new ‘Photos’ library. Look at this screenshot from Disk Inventory X: The pink section surrounded by the yellow line is my old ‘iphoto’ library. I ran Disc Inventory X to see where the excess space was taken. To run well a mac hard disk needs at least 20% free. I just noticed after El Capitan that I lost a lot of space. Free up storage space and RAM by using intelligent optimization processes that simplify your life and enable you to be more productive.My MacBook Air is running a 120GB SSD drive so I don’t want my hard drive full of excess things I don’t need. A smaller SSD storage should never be the reason to be overwhelmed with a lot of applications and files that slow down your Mac. You don’t have to worry about how to free up space on M1 and M2 Mac when you know where to look for unwanted items and the tools you need to save more space. If you compress multiple items at once, you will get an Archive.zip file. zip extension next to the original name of the file indicating a compressed file. If you compress a single file, you will get a. Choose ‘Compress’ from the shortcut menu. To compress a file or folder, control-click it or tap on it using two fingers to open the shortcut menu. You can easily zip and unzip files and folders on your Mac M1. If you’re working with a lot of documents on a regular basis and need access to them locally, your best option to save space will be to compress the files.
