Ok, thanks for that info. I just hit command-shift-M to show my mailboxes, then command-I to look at info. My quota limit shows I'm using 1.24GB and I have 10.74GB to use in total. Does this mean on my Mac, or on gMail server?
It's a pretty cool area, it shows how much each folder contains. Traci Sent by Macbook Air Mail On May 4, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Not sure I would worry about it. Compared to modern computer disk space it's > probably not worth your time to weed out mail all that much. For example, > your email was about 8k of text. That means if I get 50 simmilar messages in > a day we have 400K. At that rate, a full year would take about 150MB. Most > folks nowdays have hard drives sized somewhere north of 100GB, so you could > store 7 years of email with 1% of your disk space or less. Even if you take > more space than that, if would have to be significant before having much > impact on your disk space. Even if you do have a smallish hard drive, a 250GB > 2.5" laptop drive is running around $65, so what is your time worth? > > CB > > On 5/4/12 1:35 PM, Traci wrote: >> >> How do you guys deal with mail msg storage? >> >> I understand the benefit of storing my msgs on my mac with spotlight and >> all, but is there a way to keep an eye on how much space they are taking up? >> >> I'm tempted to just not store any of them. After all, this is what I'm use >> to. The messages I'm interested in keeping are still on Google, correct? >> >> Thanks, >> Traci >> Sent by Macbook Air Mail >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
