{"id":2658,"date":"2010-03-10T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2010-03-10T09:08:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T13:08:36","slug":"speeding-up-apple-mail-by-vacuuming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/speeding-up-apple-mail-by-vacuuming\/","title":{"rendered":"Speeding up Apple Mail by Vacuuming?….."},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple Mail, especially earlier versions of Apple Mail, may start to slow down after a long period of time…<\/p>\n

Evidently as everyone knows, it is possible to get quite a speed boost out of Mail.app by stripping all the bloat out of its Envelope index, an SQLite database Mail uses to store senders, recipients, subjects and so on.<\/p>\n

What’s the easiest way to do this?<\/p>\n

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  1. Quit Mail.<\/li>\n
  2. Open Terminal.<\/li>\n
  3. Type the following:
    \ncd ~\/Library\/Mail
    \nsqlite3 Envelope\\ Index
    \nAn sqlite> prompt will appear.
    \nAt that prompt, type vacuum subjects;
    \nAfter a short delay, the prompt will return. Type Control-D to exit.<\/li>\n
  4. Restart Mail and enjoy the extra speed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Does it work? \u00c2\u00a0 The first time he tried this, Rob Griffiths of macOSXHints reduced his Envelope index from 25.9MB to 4.5MB.<\/p>\n

    Okay, so that’s not the easiest way… \u00c2\u00a0Instead download<\/p>\n

    Sebastian Morsch<\/a> has written a script that quits Mail, runs the sqlite commands and then relaunches Mail at the end of the process. You can\u00c2\u00a0get the script from his web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Apple Mail, especially earlier versions of Apple Mail, may start to slow down after a long period of time… Evidently as everyone knows, it is possible to get quite a speed boost out of Mail.app by stripping all the bloat out of its Envelope index, an SQLite database Mail uses to store senders, recipients, subjects […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[141,196,91,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}