For more information, please refer to How to free up storage space on your Mac. Enabling this option will only download large messages/attachments only when the email is selected in the message list.Ĭheck the Storage Info using About This Mac menu. Access the account settings and enabled " Download Headers Only".Launch Outlook again and look through the Inbox, Sent Items and Junk E-Mail folders. Quit Outlook and back up this folder before doing any of the following. Your contacts, account settings, emails, etc. Create a new profile and configuring the Kerio Connect Account Assistant to create a new EWS account in the newly created Outlook profile. Outlook 2011: Everything is saved in your user account under one monolithic database within a folder named Main Identity.Remove the Outlook profile using the outlook profile manager.
That’s another reason why Outlook for Mac occupies so much disk space. Restart Outlook and when prompted to turn off logging select Leave Logging On and reproduce the issue. Select the Turn on logging for troubleshooting option, and then select OK. In the Sync Errors window, select the Gear icon. The result can be many gigabytes used on a relatively small drive. Outlook for Mac saves messages and attachments in many different files. To enable logging in Outlook 2016 for Mac, follow these steps. In particular, the ability to only sync the most recent messages. Outlook for Mac, even the latest Outlook 2016 doesn’t have some of the space-saving options available to Office for Windows. Any update, please feel free to post back. Please open your Outlook and click File > Office Account, then provide me with the screenshot of 'About Outlook' if possible. If you still cant find the location of your profiles. Also, it may cause issues with emails' synchronization and performance bottleneck. Besides, it is suggested to search 'profiles' in the Registry (Ctrl + F). Hold the ‘Option/alt’ key, then right click on the Finder icon in the dock and click Relaunch. The big storage may affect the general responsiveness of the macOS Outlook application. In Terminal, paste the following: defaults write AppleShowAllFiles YES. The user Outlook profile size might be larger compared to the actual user mailbox size on the Kerio Connect server. Inside the Main Identity folder you should see these two items: Data Records (a folder) Database (a file) When you’ve verified this information, launch Outlook with the. You must find it in your home folder: Documents > Microsoft User Data > Office 2011 Identities > Main Identity. When the macOS Outlook profile is occupying an enormous amount of local storage, the disk space can be minimized and optimized. Now, navigate to your Main Identity folder.