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mac startup disk full

My startup disk is full and when I go to About This Mac is shows that most of the disk is full with 'Other' file type - see attached screenshot.

I've done a bit of research and I think it has something to do with yahoo IMAP downloading messages over and over again. I've tried to look for .OfflineCache and I've tried to do a couple of other things... (recovered messages.mbox or something), but I really have no idea what I'm doing.

Can someone help me kill the 'Other' files that are taking up all my space??

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Thanks to both of you.. I downloaded both and they both showed pretty much the same thing. It's as I suspected - it's all choked up by mail in the recovered items folder. See attached screenshot. Do you reckon I should just kill everything in that recovered mail folder? Any idea how to stop this from happening again (aside from removing yahoo as a mail account in the mail app).

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Is your Yahoo account POP3 or IMAP?

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IMAP

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See link above

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Awesome... thanks! Last question - to free up the space, do you think I should kill everything in that recovered messages folder? I assume if I do that it won't impact any other emails that are sitting in the inbox or other folders...

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