Home folder full

When I try and open my mail I get a dialog box that says home folder full, delete files. How do I do that? Where do I go? I have deleted files in my documents, etc. still get the message. I am not out of space on the hard drive.

Your mail server would be whatever you use for your email, for example [email protected] Messages can be stored on the server, so depending on the preferences you have set, you can use up your alloted space. Check your Mail preferences in the Mailbox Behaviors and Advanced tabs for your settings - for example, how long to wait before deleting junk mail.

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    Note: XFE, when checking the properties of the home partition vs home folder, it also shows the partition as full and the contents of the folder as 1.5GB or so.  I can't shut down the computer, as I'm transferring large files from one flash drive to another (and my /tmp is on another partition and is 1% full out of 3.8GB. The comand 'df' returns that the partition is full as well... all tools, whether accessed via root or user, are telling me contradicting things: partition full, folder 40%(ish) and it's driving me mad!  Any and all help is, and will be, GREATLY appreciated!
    SOLUTION:
    installed ncdu from repos, used command 'ncdu /home' and found which folder was the culprit... I had a large transfer going overnight that wasn't going when I got back in the morning, so the disk wasn't at 100% when I got back (not sure why any space was taken up by the transfer since the tmp folder is NOT in /home and the transfer wasn't to or from /home, but that may be an issue for another day).
    Last edited by CPUnltd (2012-01-25 20:37:44)

    trash was empty, lost+found could be a possibility... what is ncdu?
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  • Plenty of space on HD, but "Home Folder" full

    Hello everyone,
    I should begin by saying that I am so horrible with computers/technology.  Hopefully someone on here can help me out without it being too difficult for me to understand. 
    Anyway, I recently bought a macbook pro with a 500 gb HD so as to accommodate space for music etc...
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  • Mail says my Home folder is full?

    Strange, Mail keeps telling me it can't save changes (i.e. do anything) because my Home folder is full and that I should move documents? What's the deal? I have no documents in the documents folder in Home... Any ideas?

    Corruption of ~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index is known to cause this bogus error message in Mail even when there is enough disk space available (but you must make sure that there is enough space available first).
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    2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong -- e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down.
    3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see an Envelope Index-journal file there, delete it as well.
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    Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user's home folder.

  • IMail won't open because Home Folder is full.  What and How do I delete?

    I just logged on and I can't open my mail program becase the home folder is full. I went into the .mbox and deleted some messages from the folder, but I still get the error message. Any ideas?
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    Corruption of ~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index is known to cause this bogus error message in Mail, even when there is enough space available on disk -- but you must make sure first that there is actually enough space available (a few GB) and that the error message is indeed bogus.
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  • On 10.4.11 Mac Mail I get this: Mail cannot update your mailboxes because your home directory is full. You must free up space in your home folder before using Mail. Delete unnedded documents or move documents to another volume. I can't open mail.

    On 10.4.11 iMac Mac Mail I get this message: "Mail cannot update your mailboxes because your home directory is full. You must free up space in your home folder before using Mail. Delete unneeded documents or move documents to another volume." I can't open mail to do this. I have reinstalled software but no effect. How do I get into Mail to delete?

    Found this on the "more like this" Worked like a charm!
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  • Mail Won't Launch - Message Says Home Folder is Full Must Delete Files

    I having been using Mail 2.0.7 with relatively few annoyances until today when I launched the application only to have a window pop up that says "Mail cannot update your mailboxes because your home directory is full. You must free up space in your home folder before using Mail. Delete unneeded documents or move documents to another volume." The only option is to Quit. The 30GB hard drive is half full. The home folder has a little over 6GB in it. I deleted a few larger files and still get this message. I re-installed the application using Pacifist. Still the same prohibition.

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  • What methods are available to fix a corrupted home folder (TM doing full backups)

    I have been having issues with Time Machine doing full back ups repeatedly to my Time Capsule (ME177LL/A) with no major file changes.
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  • Cannot open mail "home folder is full" after importing mail folder from time machine

    hello, sorry for my poor english.
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  • Home folder device usage full....partition nearly empty! [FIXED]

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    /dev/sda3 7566432 6927756 254324 97% /
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    You’re welcome.
    When I removed the preference file (com.apple.mail.plist), I also removed
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    Well, that’s not what you said in your first post...
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    Selected messages can be exported in standard mbox format by doing File > Save As in Mail and choosing Raw Message Source from the Format popup menu. Standard mbox files can be imported into most mail clients. In particular, they can be imported back into Mail doing File > Import Mailboxes and choosing Other as the data format. Using this format, however, would cause some status flags to be lost (e.g. whether a message has been replied to).
    Locally stored mailboxes can be copied to the Desktop or anywhere else by just dragging them there from Mail itself (for server-stored IMAP mailboxes, copy the messages to locally stored “On My Mac” mailboxes in Mail first). These, however, are .mbox folders (not standard mbox files), where messages are stored in individual .emlx files that other mail clients don’t know or care about. They can be imported back into Mail doing File > Import Mailboxes and choosing Mail for Mac OS X as the data format.
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    In the Messages folder.
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    Yes. The only items within a mailbox (i.e. within an .mbox or an .imapmbox folder) used by Mail 2.x are Info.plist and the Messages folder. Any other files you may see there are almost certainly Mail 1.x files that Mail 2.x leaves there after the conversion. This is poorly explained in Mac OS X 10.4 Mail: Some mailbox files used by Mac OS X 10.3 are not deleted after importing. The article only talks about mailboxes in ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/, but the same can also be said about mailboxes in “POP-”, “IMAP-”, or “Mac-” account folders.
    As long as you keep a backup copy of the old files for a while (at least, until you’re sure everything was converted properly), they can safely be removed from the Mail folder. OnyX has a Cleaning > Misc > Temporary and obsolete items option for getting rid of all those files.
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    3. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/. Move (not copy) the entire Mail folder out of there, to the Desktop.
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    5. Open Mail and set it up again from scratch. If given the option to import existing mailboxes or something like that, don’t. Just enter the account information and check that everything works fine.
    6. You’ll have to re-configure all your settings in Mail > Preferences. For spam-related security reasons, the first thing you should do is go to Preferences > Viewing and disable Display remote images in HTML messages if it’s enabled.
    7. If Mail works fine now and you had any messages stored in local mailboxes, do File > Import Mailboxes, choose Mail for Mac OS X as the data format, and follow the instructions to import your mail from the old Mail folder that’s now on the Desktop. Import the Mailboxes folder first, then each of the POP-username@mailserver account folders, if any.
    8. If .Mac synchronization of Mail data was enabled at the beginning, enable it again, go to System Preferences > .Mac > Advanced, click Reset Sync Data, and choose the appropriate options to reset the Mail data stored on the .Mac server with the data locally stored on the computer, i.e. sync data must flow from the computer to the .Mac server.
    As a result of doing the above, some messages may be duplicated. Andreas Amann’s Mail Scripts has a Remove Duplicates script that you may find useful.
    If all is well and you don’t miss anything, the files on the Desktop can be deleted, although you may want to keep them for a while, just in case.
    Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.

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