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Reduce mailbox sizes in Mail
Authored by: LFransson on Aug 28, '03 06:11:47PM

Note that you must be using the original version of find supplied with OS X, located in /usr/bin. If you're like me and have the GNU findutils installed via Fink, that version of find (located in /sw/bin) does not have the -delete option.

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Larry Fransson
Seattle, WA



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Reduce mailbox sizes in Mail
Authored by: Dibbler on Aug 28, '03 11:08:18PM
For GNU find, you should type:
find . -name "mbox.SKindex*" -exec rm {} \;

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Reduce mailbox sizes in Mail
Authored by: dwchin on Aug 29, '03 12:28:40AM

For tcsh, add a backslash before the semicolon

find . -name "mbox.SKindex*" -exec rm {} \;



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Authored by: Dibbler on Aug 29, '03 03:56:29PM

I had to do that in bash too. I could have sworn the backslash was there when I pasted the command into the comment box. I guess I just need to proofread more carefully.



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