Mail Archive & Transfer

Having close to 10K mails in my mailboxes and, facing the replacement of them all each time I transfer data between my iMac and PB, I have decided to archive all my mails up to the end of 2005 (using MailSteward). Then I simply erased all mails from my iMac mailboxes up until December 31, 2005. The hope was that this would decrease the volume and time when I next transfer the Mail folder to my PB. Well, not quite. All of the mails were still there, being transfered to my PB. Does this mean that I did not erase anything or, that those erased mails still exist in my Mail folder somewhere ?

430 MB in 30 minutes means a throughput of less than 2 Mbps (Megabits per second), which seems too slow even for AirPort, unless you're using old wireless equipment working under the original 802.11 specification, or your network is under heavy traffic.
Anyway, let's try to find out why your Mail folder seems to remain at the same size after having removed old messages from it. Probably, half of that size (or even more if you've already deleted some messages) is the result of legacy files from older versions of Mail. Take a look at the following article:
Mac OS X 10.4 Mail: Some mailbox files used by Mac OS X 10.3 are not deleted after importing
Actually, what the article says is applicable to any .mbox or .imapmbox folder within HOME/Library/Mail/, regardless of whether it's in Mailboxes or in any of the account folders. And what it really means is that any file within a mailbox folder, other that Info.plist and the Messages folder, can be deleted.
You can remove the legacy files manually yourself or you can use the cleaning facilities of OnyX. In the latter case, the option that removes the legacy files from the Mail folder is Cleaning > Temporary and obsolete items.
Whatever you do, be sure to quit Mail and make a backup copy of the ~/Library/Mail folder before proceeding, just is case something goes wrong.
Post back with your observations.

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Tony T1, OK, thanks. So there is no space savings or compression, just another folder. Then why have it??
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