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Как очистить память на Mac, удалив ненужные вложения в электронных письмах (приложении Почта)

По умолчанию приложение «Почта» на Mac загружает все вложения в сообщениях электронной почты, приходящих на компьютер, и со временем загруженные файлы могут занять несколько гигабайт свободного места на диске.

Даже если вы запретите загрузку всех вложений, «Почта» все равно локально будет загружать прилагаемые файлы, которые вы открываете. Ниже мы расскажем, как удалить старые вложения и освободить место на диске.

Отметим, что предлагаемый метод практически безопасен, поскольку не затрагивает файлы, которые вы сохранили в определенную папку на компьютере. Он позволяет удалить только автоматически загруженные файлы, о существовании которых на устройстве вы, скорее всего, даже не подозреваете. Это могут быть как PDF-документы и фотографии, так и изображения, встроенные в подписи.

Стоит отметить, что для очистки Mac (в том числе и загруженных приложением Почта вложений) существуют и специализированные приложения, например, CleanMyMac.

Как удалить старые вложения, загруженные приложением «Почта» на Mac

1. Откройте окно Finder;

2. Перейдите по пути:

/Пользователи/Имя Пользователя/Библиотеки/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads

Чтобы узнать объем занимаемого пространства, кликните на значке папки правой кнопкой мыши;

3. Откройте папку «Mail Downloads»;

4. Выделите все подпапки и удалите их.

Если вы долгое время пользуетесь своим Mac, ненужные файлы могут занимать достаточно много места — до нескольких гигабайт. Хотя Apple усовершенствовала возможности macOS в том, что касается управления хранилищем и обработки ненужных файлов, проблема по-прежнему остается актуальной, особенно на устаревших моделях Mac.

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Question: Q: Can I delete Containers?

I’m trying to create some space on my Mac.

Within my Users > My Name > Library, the following are large folders:

Can any of them be deleted or should they be left alone?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Sierra (10.12.2), (Sep 2014)

Posted on Dec 28, 2016 8:38 AM

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These folders can indeed become very large. But they are needed.

• The «Containers» folder is the sandbox used by the applications to exchange data. It will usually be cleared, when you restart the mac.
• The «Logs» are a history of error logs and similar, and macOS is clearing them regularly automatically by running the daily, weekly, and monthly tasks.
• The «Application Support» contains the media file, plug-ins, themes, and other items the applications will need routinely. There is nothing to purge, unless you uninstall an application. For example, my GarageBand version is keeping a whopping amount of 50 GB of sound files, learn to play lessons, and similar in this folder.

Usually the uninstallers for an application should remove the items from Application Support.

Dec 29, 2016 4:22 AM

There are three relevant Library folders:

Your user library in your home folder:

/Library
Here the items and media will be installed by the applications, that are only used in your own user account.

The system wide application Library: /Library
Here the applications will install items to be used by all users

The System Library: /System/Library
This library folder is part of the system and contains support for system processes and utilities.

As to your list of deleted items: Clearing caches will usually not free storage permanently. The Mac will have to recreate the cached files. They are created to save items that might be needed again and to speed up the mac. The other items (launch demons, etc.) will also be recreated as soon as they are needed. Typically you will only want to delete them for trouble shooting, if one of these files got corrupted and is creating problems.

Dec 29, 2016 4:22 AM

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I recommend not to delete anything inside your Library folder!

Deleting folder will lead to applications not working (properly) anymore.

Dec 28, 2016 8:54 AM

These folders can indeed become very large. But they are needed.

• The «Containers» folder is the sandbox used by the applications to exchange data. It will usually be cleared, when you restart the mac.
• The «Logs» are a history of error logs and similar, and macOS is clearing them regularly automatically by running the daily, weekly, and monthly tasks.
• The «Application Support» contains the media file, plug-ins, themes, and other items the applications will need routinely. There is nothing to purge, unless you uninstall an application. For example, my GarageBand version is keeping a whopping amount of 50 GB of sound files, learn to play lessons, and similar in this folder.

Usually the uninstallers for an application should remove the items from Application Support.

Dec 29, 2016 4:22 AM

Don’t delete any of those.

To learn how to reclaim disk space please read:

Dec 28, 2016 2:01 PM

Thank you for your responses

I will leave those files alone then!

When I had a call with Apple Support and we needed to create space on my Mac we deleted some files within the Library:

* Saved Application State

Others might have a view but they were deleted safely and my Mac was fine.

IIRC, there were two locations where these files were found:

1) System Library (for macOS system)

2) User Library (for user)

I’ve found the «User Library» but is the «System Library» something different?

Dec 29, 2016 4:05 AM

There are three relevant Library folders:

Your user library in your home folder:

/Library
Here the items and media will be installed by the applications, that are only used in your own user account.

The system wide application Library: /Library
Here the applications will install items to be used by all users

The System Library: /System/Library
This library folder is part of the system and contains support for system processes and utilities.

As to your list of deleted items: Clearing caches will usually not free storage permanently. The Mac will have to recreate the cached files. They are created to save items that might be needed again and to speed up the mac. The other items (launch demons, etc.) will also be recreated as soon as they are needed. Typically you will only want to delete them for trouble shooting, if one of these files got corrupted and is creating problems.

Dec 29, 2016 4:22 AM

There are two main areas where you can safely look for space to save:

1. Apps you’ve downloaded that you no longer use. (including their Application Support folders in all Libraries)

2. Your own files. (including Downloads, videos, music)

Looking for stuff to delete elsewhere is likely to end in tears or not save much space. You might have backups of your iPhone or iPad on your Mac, which can take up a lot of space: these can be deleted in iTunes prefs.

Ultimately, stuff expands to fill the space available, and you have to think of a way of using larger storage, such as external drives or wireless network devices.

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Question: Q: mail logs filling up disk space: why? ok to delete?

Computer spec’s: 2GHz Mac Mini with 4GB of RAM and a 250GB flash storage. I am running OS 10.9.5 and Mail 7.3.

Problem: My storage has been mysteriously filling up, with about 200 GB in “other” in “about this Mac.” I would delete files and then it would fill up again. Using WhatSize, I determined that Mail logs took up 107GB, with two files accounting for most of this (details below).

Questions: Is it safe to delete Mail logs? Why are some so big? Why are dates so random? Can I prevent large mail logs in the future?

In Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Logs, here are the dates and size of the largest files named in format: [long stream of numbers and letters]=imap.gmail.com.txt

Then there are six files between 312GB and 867.2 GB and many others named in the above format and multiple files named in this format: [date]_GmailDelete.log dating back to May 21.

Thank you for your help.

Posted on Oct 4, 2014 6:58 PM

Thank you for the reply. I deleted the logs and got the space back. I appreciate understanding more about what happened.

Posted on Oct 6, 2014 6:32 PM

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Gmail is having trouble with the mac Mail client for quite some time. You know. Gmail = Google.

The Mail logs keep a record of the connection process, they’re useful to to diagnose problems, but not so friendly for regular users like Mail Activity window or Connection Doctor.

It’s safe to delete those logs. If you have a Time Machine backup, delete them from your user Library so you can check them later just in case to find what’s causing the issue (the huge size which is not usual). If you don’t have a TM backup, copy them to your desktop, erase all logs from your user Library and reopen Mail app. If it’s everything OK, keep at least the most recent and smaller one to later review what’s going on.

Oct 4, 2014 8:03 PM

Deleting the logs will help.

Something happens and causes the logs to grow.

Mail then periodically tries to zip the logs.

If the logs get too big that zipping will bring the machine to its knees.

There are two issues here as far as I can tell, 1: that the logs grow to a ridiculous size, that is bad and should be prevented. 2: that mail tries to zip them in memory which is just stupid, it should not try to do something that will kill the machine.

Please go to http://bugreport.apple.com/ and file a bug. It will be closed as a duplicate. Creating a duplicate bug report is like voting for a bug to be fixed, the more duplicates there are the higher it should get on the priority list for a fix. We can only hope.

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Gmail is having trouble with the mac Mail client for quite some time. You know. Gmail = Google.

The Mail logs keep a record of the connection process, they’re useful to to diagnose problems, but not so friendly for regular users like Mail Activity window or Connection Doctor.

It’s safe to delete those logs. If you have a Time Machine backup, delete them from your user Library so you can check them later just in case to find what’s causing the issue (the huge size which is not usual). If you don’t have a TM backup, copy them to your desktop, erase all logs from your user Library and reopen Mail app. If it’s everything OK, keep at least the most recent and smaller one to later review what’s going on.

Oct 4, 2014 8:03 PM

Thank you for the reply. I deleted the logs and got the space back. I appreciate understanding more about what happened.

Oct 6, 2014 6:32 PM

I’m glad it worked. You’re welcome.

Please mark the answer status to green, to see the answer in context.

Oct 6, 2014 6:59 PM

Hi, I’m having a very similar trouble but I do not use Gmail. I have several mail accounts, essentially from 2 mail server providers (hosting and registrar companies), most accounts in IMAP but some still in POP.

I’m on a PowerBook pro, retina 15 mid 2012, 2.7 Ghz Intel Core i7, with 750 Gb SSD disk», running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2

Since one week I experience the same problem, disk space filling up without appearant reasons. In the Data/Library/Logs/Mail I have 541 files (!!), some of them very huge. I have deleted a 75 Gb file and another of 13Gb, but I still have files from more than 9Gb (ten file obver 1Gb).

I have changed passwords in my accounts and even to access my hosting proividers. But no changes.

Deleting the huge files in the Logs doesn’t seem to affect Mails except the fact that I have to enter all POP / IMAP and SMTP passwords 🙁

In the logs, the hugest files are «2015-03-18_IMAPMailboxSyncEngine.log», 2mail.mydomainname-d44f367b-6650-4ddf-9cc6-4fe08822ab6c.txt», «2015-03-21_SocketStreamEvents.log», «137778C8-7690-48F3-877E-48D400322117-mail.mydomainename.txt», and I have plenty like that.

The question is, where the problemn comes from ??

When deleting the log files . the problem is not solved because it continues to filling it with new logs, again ..

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[OS X] Экономим дисковое пространство при работе с Mail

Всё ещё «воюете» за место на диске? Вполне может оказаться, что заполучить несколько «трофейных» гигабайт получится одним залпом, и поможет нам в этой битве замечательное приложение Mail.

Как ни крути, а встроенный в OS X почтовый клиент — отличная бесплатная программа, которой с удовольствием пользуется как ваш покорный слуга, так и многие другие владельцы Mac. Да вот незадача: с развитием технологий объёмы пересылаемых данных возросли на порядок, а стоимость твердотельных накопителей всё ещё недостаточно пропорциональна их ёмкости. Проще говоря, современная электронная почта является серьёзным потребителем дискового пространства, и виной тому не только многочисленные вложения, но и специфические настройки клиентов.

В случае с Mail, как и любой другой почтовой программой, обычно происходит следующее: пользователь открывает письмо, содержащее вложения, после чего переходит к другим сообщениям. Здесь-то и начинается самое интересное — файлы копируются в специальную папку, расположенную по адресу

/Library/containers/com.apple.mail/data/library/Mail Downloads, где хранятся неограниченно долго.

Надеемся, этот простой совет поможет освободить ваш Mac от ненужных файлов, ведь за длительное время работы с компьютером объём «почтовой» папки может существенно разрастись. Не забудьте и о других интересных особенностях Mail, например, о настройке жестов или о том, как управляться с письмами посредством вкладок. Компактной вам переписки!

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