Cleaning up iMac in Finder

Hi, I've had an iPhone/iPad for a long time and am pretty familiar with Apple products but just got an iMac and I'm very confused when going to clean it up through Finder for the first time. Apparantly when I click on "All My Files" I have over 3000+ images/downloads saved. Most of them are labeled as "Portable ICS Images" or "Apple Icons". It gives me the ability to delete them but I'm not sure I should? Also, it has been auto saving every single image in every email I've opened, including attachements. Why does it do this automatically and can you stop it? Wouldn't the computer be smart enough to know that if I want to save an image I will do so manually? I want to be able to clean up my computer efficiently and without much time, and this really seems like a hassle. Very confused, please help.

Thank you, I appreciate the help. My only concern is that through my email I have received spam messages from Craigslist ad's I've posted, and if anyone has ever received these spam messages from Craigslist they contain images/photos that are not always appropriate and are soliciting. Turns out by just veiwing these emails, because I don't know they are spam until I open them, it automatically saves a copy of the images under "All My Files" - subfolder - "Images". They show up here even after I've deleted the emails. I just don't understand why the Mac stores a copy of these images from emails. Even when I recieve emails from bills I've paid online, the company logo from the email is stored the same way. I just don't understand why it does this because for obvious reasons I do not want some of these images stored on my computer, anywhere. And to my understanding, if even a copy of these images are being stored it will eventually eat a way at the storage capacity and thus I will have to constantly go into Finder and delete these manually. Not to dig any deeper into this, but it's a huge hassle because these images are mixed in with other pre-existing images that my Mac already came with, the "Apple Icons", etc, that I mentioned previously. So therefor when I'm going through and deleting the unwanted images it's auto saved, I do not want to delete anything I shouldn't by accident that the Mac needs to operate. Sorry for the shpeel, stuff like this just bothers me. Should I just take your advice and turn off the All My Files and not worry about it?

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