Saving Space on vault-delete folder?

I have an external drive that I am using as a backup vault. I would like to add more space on the vault and noticed that there is a folder containing images that I deleted from Aperture. Can I delete this folder without affecting the operation of the vault?
Thanks for any advice on this.

Deleting that Finder folder will have no effect on your Vault. I contains the (Managed) Masters you have deleted from your Library, and is created as yet another precaution against accidental deletion of your digicam files. Every time you update a Vault, Aperture removes from that Vault any items that you have removed from your Library. Removed items which are Managed Masters (there can be no Referenced Masters in a Vault) are placed in a Finder folder inside the same Finder folder that holds your Vault.

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Found this on the "more like this" Worked like a charm!
With the Mail.app quit and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail. Copy the Mail folder and place the copy on the Desktop for backup purposes.
Go to Home > Library > Mail > Envelope Index. Move the Envelope Index file to the Desktop.
Launch Mail and you will be prompted to import mailboxes. Select OK and allow the import process to complete.
After confirming all mailboxes were successfully imported and available, you can delete the copy of the Mail folder and old Envelope Index file from the Desktop and this should resolve the problem.

My 5 year old MacBook Air is telling me it "cannot save information about your mailboxes because there isn't enough space in your home folder. Quit mail, delete files you don't need, then reopen mail." What is "home folder," and which files to delete?

My 5 year old MacBook Air is telling me it "cannot save information about your mailboxes because there isn't enough space in your home folder. Quit mail, delete files you don't need, then reopen mail." What is "home folder," and which files to delete? Thanks.

The home folder is where all of your personal files are kept.
Best candidates to delete are movies, videos, music and photos since they generally take the most space.
Don't forget to empry the Trash after you delete the file because the space is not returned until the Trash is emptied.
Allan

Insufficient space on vault to back up library

I have a vault on an external 500Gb firewire drive, and aperture will not update as it says there is not enough space on the drive, although there is 100Gb free and the library is only 364Gb total, any ideas?
G5 Dual2ghz 4Gb Ram. Library on 500Gb Sata Ext Drive, Vault on 500Gb firewire drive.
G5 & MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

The problem is Aperture needs free space on the b/u hard drive to move images to that you deleted in the Library.
First thing to do is make sure you move the deleted images on the b/u drive to the trash and then empty the trash. Try synching now as this should open up more space if you've deleted images within Aperture.
If there is still not enough room you have 2 options.
The easy way is to purchase a larger hard drive or RAID 2 together to get a larger drive and backup onto that.
The other way is where things get fun.
You'll need to manually move things around in the Vault before you can backup.
Doing this comes with all of the usual "Do at your own Risk" stuff.
You'll need to do the following.
Quit Aperture.
Open the package contents of the Aperture Library.
Unlock the corresponding Aperture Vault. Open the package contents of the Vault. Open the Library folder within the Vault package.
Compare the Library package with the Library folder within the Vault.
Copy any new xxxx.approject to the exact same location in the Vault Library folder.
If you have deleted any Projects in the Library and you are sure you want them gone, delete them from the Vault Library folder and empty the trash.
Close both packages, restart Aperture and tell it to update the vault.
That should do it.

Vault Deleted Images?

Greetings,
Is it safe to delete the folder Aperture Vault Deleted Images (or sub folders and files from that folder) from the external hard drive that my vault is on? There are a lot of deleted images in it that are taking up space.
Thanks in advance - Scrags

Yes.
They are moved to that folder as a safety precaution in the event you realize that you didn't intend to delete them.

Sent messages aren't saved in the Sent Items folder in Outlook 2013

When we send a message in Outlook 2013, a copy of the message should be saved in the Sent Items folder by default. If Outlook doesn’t save a copy of the sent message, it may be caused by any one of the following
reasons:
The “Save copies of messages in the Sent Items folder”
option in Outlook is disabled.
The save location for sent messages was changed to another folder.
There is a custom view set on Sent Items folder, or the view on
Sent Items is corrupt.
Outlook Data File may be damaged.
To resolve the issue, use the appropriate method for your situation.
Enable the Save copies of messages in the Sent Items folder
option
To configure Outlook 2013 to save copies of your sent messages in the Sent Items folder, please follow these steps:
1. Click File tab > Options.
2. Click Mail on the left pane.
3. Scroll to the Save Messages section, select the check box before “Save copies of messages in the Sent Items folder”.
4. Click OK.
If it is the replying message that is not saving to the Sent Items folder, we need to disable the “When replying to a message that is not in the Inbox, save the reply in the same folder” option in the location mentioned above.
If you’re using an IMAP account, please also make sure you didn’t select the “Do not save copies of sent items” in Account Settings. To check this, Please refer to the following steps:
1. In Outlook, click File tab > Info.
2. Click Account Settings > Account Settings, and then double-click your IMAP account to open the
Change Account wizard.
3. Click More Settings button.
4. Under Sent Items heading, clear the check box before “Do not save copies of sent items”.
5. Click OK and click Next to complete the configuration.
Make sure there is no rule or anything else to redirect sent messages to other folders
To check if it is caused by Outlook rules, please follow these steps:
1. In Outlook 2013, click Home tab.
2. Click Rules > Manage Rules & Alerts.
3. In the rules list, check if there is any rule that applied to the sent messages may cause this issue.
In addition, some rules may be corrupt or hidden and we cannot see them from the rules list. We need to use the MFCMAPI tool to find and delete the corrupt/hidden rules. To do this, we can use the following steps:
1. Download MFCMAPI tool from: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com/
2. Start MFCMAPI tool.
3. Click Session menu >
Logon, select the Outlook profile you are using and click OK.
4. Double-click the mailbox that contains the inbox rules that you want to delete.
5. A new window will open. In the new window, expand
Root Container or Root – Mailbox, and then expand
Top of Information Store or IPM_SUBTREE.
6. Right click on Inbox and select
Open associated contents table.
7. In the Inbox window, locate and then right-click the items that have the
IPM.Rule.Message message class, and then click Delete Message.
To identify a specific rule, you’ll have to select the rule in the top pane in MFCMAPI and then scroll down in the lower pane and look at the
Property name(s) column. Find the ptagRuleMsgName property name and check the value against the rule name you were trying to delete in Outlook.
8. In the Delete Item dialog, select
DELETE_HARD_DELETE from the Deletion Style drop-down menu.
9. Click OK.
Reset the view settings on Sent Items folder
If you accidently changed the view settings on Sent Items folder, this may cause some sent messages not visible in the folder. To check if you’ve set any view settings on Sent Items folder, please follow:
1. In Outlook, select Sent Items folder.
2. Click View tab from the Ribbon.
3. Click View Settings button. If you notice the
Reset Current View button is clickable, it means the view settings for Sent Items have been changed before.
4. Click the Reset Current View button and then check the Sent Items folder again.
Scan and repair the Outlook Data File
To repair the .pst file, please follow:
1. Find and start the Inbox Repair Tool in the following path:
For Outlook 2013 on a 32-bit version of Windows:
<disk drive>\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15
For Outlook 2013 on a 64-bit version of Windows:
<disk drive>\Program Files(x86)\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15
2. In the Inbox Repair tool, click Browse to locate the PST file by using the Windows file system.
3. Click Start.
4. After the analysis scan has completed, it will present you with a scanning report and options for the next step. Click Repair button.
To repair the .ost file, since this type of data file is a copy of information saved on your mail server, we can just delete the OST file and restart Outlook to re-create a new one.
For more information about repair Outlook data files, please refer to this article:
Repair Outlook Data Files (.pst and .ost).
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Same problem here, connecting to a Groupwise (not latest) server. Whenever Mail.app 3 tries to upload/save a new messsage to the server, it would not save and completely lose the message!
I found slightly more information by turning off the "Save to server" option for Sent and Drafts, created a new message that I saved as draft, and then tried to manually move items to the Drafts or Sent folder on the IMAP server.
The error I received was: The message <message> could not be moved to the mailbox <mailbox>-<account>. The IMAP command "APPEND" (to <mailbox>) failed with server error: APPEND NotJunk.
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I have mistakenly deleted a mail folder which I had created. Can't remember if it was located to 'iCloud' or 'On My Mac'. How can I retrieve the emails contained in this deleted folder? Your help will be immensely appreciated!

I have mistakenly deleted a mail folder in which I had created. I can't remember if it was located to 'iCloud' or 'On My Mac'. How can I retrieve the emails contained in this deleted folder? Your help will be immensely appreciated!

Yeah not a problem. It does seem though that if you did not have a Time Machine backup then you may not be able to recover the deleted folder :/ But for future reference to prevent any of this, a Time Machine backup is a great investment.
What it does is create an entire backup of your computer anything from personal information down to the screen saver.
What you first need is a new external hard drive (I would recommend a 1TB or higher just to prevent running out of space soon).
after that, just plug in the drive to your computer.
once it is plugged in, in the top right hand corner, close to the wi-fi symbol, you should see a symbol that looks like a clock with a backwards arrow around it.
click on that and select "open time machine preferences"
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Can't delete folder/picture

Good day. I have a folder "untitled folder" on my desktop, with a single photograph inside. When I try to delete the folder to the trash, I am told I can't because I "do not have sufficient privileges for some of the items". If I try to delete just the pic inside, I am told the same thing. A couple of times I was told that the folder was in use.
I can drag the pic to the desktop and then delete it, but it remains in the folder which is interesting to me.
I have never had this happened to me before. It's not really a problem for me but has my curiosity up now. Any ideas? I have checked permissions under "get info" but I am the system admin and the only user. It shows read and write for this folder. Mac Mini Intel 2 Leopard 10.5.1
Thanks RR1

There are actually many users in OS X, even though you may be the only human one. "System" is not you, it is the "root" or "superuser" capable of withholding privileges even from "admin" users like your initial user account. However, since read write privileges are extended to "everyone" you should be able to delete the file normally unless certain modes are set for the file or its enclosing folder, which apparently is the case here.
The Terminal command "sudo" allows any admin user to gain most of the superuser privileges, which is why DaMikki suggested the command line containing it. It isn't clear from your replies if you are using it correctly: you must enter the command starting with "sudo," then hit return, then blindly enter your password at the prompt (you will not see it echoed to the command line), then hit return for it to be accepted & the command executed.
Additionally, you must use the exact file path to the folder following "rm -R " (note the trailing space) in the command. If the file path includes any spaces (like in "untitled folder"), you must either enclose the path in quotes or "escape" the spaces in the path name with leading backslashes, as in DaMikki's example. To make this easier, you can type the command up to to the space following "rm -R " & then drag the folder from the desktop to the terminal window, which will automatically copy its path with any escapement needed. CAUTION: "sudo rm" is a very powerful command, capable of permanently deleting almost any file in the OS without confirmation. It is imperative that you enter the command correctly, especially no extra, unescaped spaces in the file path name, to prevent deleting the wrong file or files.
If you have done this & the file is still not deleted, double check that the path name is correct. For example, if the folder is named anything other than "untitled folder," including an extra leading or trailing space ("untitled folder "), the command won't delete it.
You should see an error message if the command doesn't execute. If so, please tell us what it is.

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How to create a logon script to delete folder, subfolders and contents when a user logs on ?

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copy the text below into a text editor
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Matt

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