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The guru of all things Mail.app, Tim Gaden at Hawk Wings, has posted a tip that seems to offer a considerable speed boost to Mail....
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WOW!!!
Not a VISTA whisper behind closed doors or ragged skirts but a real WOW!!!
My Mail is so fast now that there are skid marks on my screen from the speed. Alos to close - quit - is like lightening on steroids
Whew...
I used the single line command:
sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index vacuum
worked great...
Thanks everyone...
Best tip in a long time!
Mail quits a lot faster, no lingering on before it quits after I press Command+Q... we'll see does that last?
March 02 2007 at 2:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWow! this is a precious tip.
I works with the one line version for me:
sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index vacuum subjects;
I tried also these:
sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index vacuum index;
sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index vacuum
I'm not sure what exactly is the fine differences between those three (compact subjects, the indexes or the whole db)... but the things is, it had a positive speed effect on Mail.
Do you know if there is any similar line command to speed up iCal now?
This is a great tip.
It made a huge difference.
Thanks Tuaw!
Thanks Hawk Wings!
Thanks for pointing this tip out. My mail has been slow of late and I noticed the difference right away.
March 01 2007 at 9:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyA single line in the Terminal will do the trick:
sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index vacuum
The argument to the vacuum command is ignored:
http://www.sqlite.org/lang_vacuum.html
Wow. That really worked well!
March 01 2007 at 8:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replywow, that's incredible. i think mail even loads in one dock bounce now. thanks for the tip!
March 01 2007 at 8:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replywow. Great tip! I only have 3 POP accounts and ~5000 messages, but this has visibly improved my Mail.app speed...I was startled the first time it loaded so fast.
March 01 2007 at 8:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replythe command is taking forever on my 1.25ghtz g4...
i wonder how bloated my db was...
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