I try to pause Parallels whenever I'm not actively doing something in Windows 10 since that stops it from consuming CPU cycles and click brings it back instantly. But I'm one of two Mac users at my company so I don't know how many apps the typical Mac user runs simultaneously. I'm not doing any coding or photo/video editing so I just don't need the raw horsepower of a MacBook Pro. And naturally the same applies to travel. I think I prefer the 12 inch MacBook because I'm always going from meeting to meeting at work so the lighter the better. Looks like I was barking up the wrong tree. I tried that and Mail wasn't slow at all. am I running into the limitations of the Mail app with this volume of email? Or is the sluggishness I'm experiencing more related to running Parallels, MS Teams, iTunes, Safari, Activity Monitor, etc all at the same time? I only wonder about the Mail app because in Activity Monitor the processes that consume the most memory are Parallels, WindowServer, and kernel_task always. The thought of going through years of emails to find and archive important things or just delete all the spam is daunting at best and terrifying at worst. sometimes when it comes to UI responsiveness. I just know that Mail feels "sluggish" at times. ![]() I don't know if that is considered "high" or not. I notice when I fire up the Mail app it will consume anywhere from 400-700 MB of memory as reported by Activity Monitor. I have a 2017 MacBook with 512 GB of storage and 8 GB of RAM. Everything else lives in my "Inbox" or my "Sent" folder and I just use search or flags to find things. Except for emails I'm positive are election cycle begging and I have a rule set up to automatically move it to a "Political" folder so I never have to see it. So this is where I stand now with respect to storage. All the way back to Yahoo and Mindspring email accounts. My personal emails in iCloud go back to April 1999. My work emails in Exchange go back to Feb. I haven’t completely described my problem here – just a glimmer of what I’m thinking the issues are.So first off a confession. I can’t get a incremental update feed for sucking into EagleFiler as I’m sending outgoing mail. I either get a copy of ALL my sent mail – or nothing. With Gmail, it’s an all or nothing proposition. ![]() The problem is that there’s no way I’ve discovered to be able to do that. ![]() What I’d love to do is to have my sent email, for example, added incrementally into my EagleFiler archive – so that I’ve got a local copy, easily searchable, right at hand. ![]() EagleFiler makes searching my archive of saved “stuff” quick and easy. On my desktop (Mac), I use a program called EagleFiler to manage huge archives of files that I think at some point I’ll want to go back and refer to again. A major step forward! But, alas, not a complete solution to my needs. If you enable that feature, you can – for example – make Gmail’s All Mail or Sent Mail invisible to IMAP clients so that they won’t spin forever trying to keep a desktop version of those multi-gigabyte (!) mailboxes in sync with the Gmail server version. One of the features they added a few months back allows you to enable/disable various “folders” (or Labels in Gmail parlance) so that they’re not made available to IMAP clients. I’m a big fan of what the Google folks are doing with the Labs feature in Gmail.
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