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10.4: Free up disk space from Mail.app after upgrade
Danger Will Robinson!!!
10.4: Free up disk space from Mail.app after upgrade
Please, please understand that find does not do substring search by default on the name unless you specify a pattern (eg. 'foo*', note that you need the quotes to prevent the shell interpretting it as a glob).
Try
to see what would be removed.
Additionally, the rm is a shell command, not a find builtin, so without a -rf flag, it will not remove directories. This finds files only, though you could be extra specific with the following clause:
Which specifically disallows directories from being found.
Sure, if you get it wrong, it could be dangerous, however, I agree with dschroet's hint and I believe the old mbox files are no longer used - mail must be stored in .elmx files so that spotlight can find a single file containing the required terms. So I believe the hint to be safe. YMMV.
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