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How to fix 'Mail cannot save information about your mailboxes' due to insufficient space in home folder?

How do you find it and put it in Finder Window? I'm getting this: Mail cannot save information about your mailboxes because there isn’t enough space in your home folder.



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Original Title: FINDING HOME WINDOW IN MAIL




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That message is really about free space on the Mac as a whole, not something in Mail. Your home folder sits on the Mac's main disk, so once the disk is nearly full, Mail has nowhere left to save its files.


To open the home folder, click anywhere on the desktop and press Shift-Command-H (or choose Go > Home from the menu bar). If you want it in the sidebar for next time, go to Finder > Settings > Sidebar and tick the little house with your name.


To find out what's filling the disk, go to Apple menu > System Settings > General > Storage. Each category there has an i button, and the one for Documents lists your largest files, so you can decide what to move or delete. When a few GB are free, quit Mail and open it again, and the message should stop.


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