I don't want GMail Messages Stored on Hard Drive Through Mac Mail

I recently updated my Mac to Mountain Lion 10.8.2 and added my 3 GMail accounts to Mac Mail, causing over 10,000 emails to be downloaded and stored on my hard drive. This used over 10 GB of space. After deleting the GMail accounts from Mac Mail, my hard drive space did not increase. Are the GMail messages still stored on hard drive?

In Finder, choose the "Go" Menu from the top menubar, select go to folder and type ~/Library/Mail
This should reveal your Mail folder, which you can delete to remove all the emails.
Then go to Mail and set up the gmail accounts again, but this time in the advanced tab change "Keep copies of messages for offline viewing" to either "All Messages, but omit attachments" or "Dont keep copies of any messages"

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Missing a pretty big step here.... How does one install a new OS on an external drive? You can't install an OS without first booting into an OS. I don't have a disk to boot to, but have gotten as far as downloading the install software. Perhaps the answer you should be providing is that I need to create an install disk somehow?
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It sounds like you're deleted message threads keep coming back after you restart the devie. I recommend starting by quitting all the running apps on your phone:
iOS: Force an app to close
Double-click the Home button.
Swipe left or right until you have located the app you wish to close.
Swipe the app up to close it.
When you have done that restart the device and test the issue again:
iOS: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting
If the issue persists, backup your device to iTunes and then restore it as a new device and verify that it works.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&src=support_site.home.search&local e=en_US&q=time%20machine
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i buy the new imac,late 2012 with a hard-drive 3TB and i want to change with another hard-drive 1TB....where i can buy?

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