Mail & Full Home Folder

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I get this notice sometimes in Mail and it states:

"You must free up space in your home folder before using Mail. Delete unneeded documents or move documents to another volume."

There is another line above this one in the pop up box but I closed it before I could copy it. If it pops up again soon I will edit my post.

The only option it gives me is to quit Mail. After quitting I can usually restart Mail and it will duplicate messages just deleted and sometimes duplicate them 5 or 6 times. I pretty much don't have much in my home folder.

My wifes notebook gets the same errors.

I've used cocktail and it doesn't help.

Help please and TIA

10.4.3/P.B. 15' 1.5
 
58.42 Gigs and my home folder is 5.83 Gigs. No external hard drives attached.

I will check this post later today. Car problems!!!
 
that is my free space. The HD is 75 G's.

File Vault isn't enabled.

This has me stumped also. Both my wifes and mine computers do this.
 
Hmmm... and you've got a standard setup, right? Meaning that your hard drive has one big partition and that you haven't "moved" the home folder to another drive/partition or anything?

Strange indeed... I'll research a little and see what I come up with, but that's got me stumped as well.
 
Hey ElDiablo,

Here is what the dialog box says:

Mail cannot update your mailboxes
because your home directory is full.

You must free up space in your home folder before
using Mail. Delete unneeded documents or move
documents to another volume.

And then it give me the Quit button only.


Anyone have any ideas
 
I found the following info in the forums but I have a customer (I work at an ISP) and she is a little old lady and trying the following over the phone with her I am dreading, if you have a quicker fix than below please post...:

Q: Mail 2.0 Has Crashed - Home Directory Full

Everytime I open Apple Mail 2.0, I get the following message:

"Mail cannot update your mailboxes because your home directory is full.

You must free up space in your home folder before using mail. Delete unneeded documents or move documents to another volume."

I can't figure out what to do. I have nearly 30 GB free and I have even deleted files from my documents folder all to no avail.

I tried Thunderbird, but I can't import Mail 2.0 messages. The previous version of mail imports great using the "back door" method described by Thunderbird. But the new 2.0 format is all (*^$%&**((ed up and won't be imported by ANY other mail system apparently.

Can anyone tell me either how to fix Mail or how I can make the 2.0 messages transfer to Thunderbird?

Everytime I open Apple Mail 2.0, I get the following message:

"Mail cannot update your mailboxes because your home directory is full.

You must free up space in your home folder before using mail. Delete unneeded documents or move documents to another volume."

I can't figure out what to do. I have nearly 30 GB free and I have even deleted files from my documents folder all to no avail.

I tried Thunderbird, but I can't import Mail 2.0 messages. The previous version of mail imports great using the "back door" method described by Thunderbird. But the new 2.0 format is all (*^$%&**((ed up and won't be imported by ANY other mail system apparently.

Can anyone tell me either how to fix Mail or how I can make the 2.0 messages transfer to Thunderbird?



Hi Andrew

Try the following:

With Mail quit and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail.

Move the Mail folder to the Desktop.

Launch Mail and a new Mail folder (and account named folders within) will be created automatically.

All new mailboxes will be empty but if this allows the Mail.app to function properly, you can use the Import Mailboxes feature to import selected mailboxes or manually replace mailboxes from the old Mail folder one at a time to determine which mailbox was causing the problem.
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Bobw - Macosx.com Tech Support

Bob,

Thanks for the tip! It worked. Was less hassle than any of the other email programs I tried to migrate to.

Now, I am wondering if it is possible to recover the junk mail "learned" preferences. I was told back when I first switched to Mac that Mail would learn what is junk mail and what isn't junk mail based on the emails that I junk. It was doing a fabulous job before it crashed. I would usually have about 4 or 5 junk mails in my mailbox overnight. This morning there were 29. I was able to easily determine the message rules preferences file and restored that one, but I can't tell what file needs to be restored for the junk mail.

Any ideas?Andrew

I'm not sure, but the Junk settings may be in the 'com.apple.mail.plist' file in ;

User>Library>Preferences

I haven't found any other reference to it in any other file.

May be easier to re-train Junk.
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Bobw - Macosx.com Tech Support
 
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