![]() ![]() But please, if you’re going to try this, make sure you have a good backup before proceeding. First of all, go to check and see if you have enough free hard drive space to work with: Click the Apple menu > Select About This Mac > Click. What used to take a second or so became nearly instantaneous. I’ve never lost any mail doing this-really, you shouldn’t, as you’re just rebuilding an index file-and the first time I ran it, it made a notable difference in the time required to switch between folders. If you’ve got a lot of sizable attachments on an IMAP account, you’ll really only want to try this solution on a fast Internet connection. It should be noted, however, that I started this thread on March 2 and I installed the suspect app on March 7. ![]() So, I disabled one app I think could be the culprit because it required installing system extensions, a no-no in Big Sur. So after rebuilding your index, access to messages (and attachments in particular) may be slow at first, as Mail goes about downloading the previously-cached attachments. Today, I tested Mac Mail in Safe Boot mode and the slow email loading problem went away. Typically, this would be any IMAP messages that you leave in your inbox if you drag them to a Mail folder you’ve created, then the message and attachments are downloaded and stored locally. When you clean the index in this manner, any locally-cached messages and attachments from IMAP accounts will be dumped and downloaded again from the server.
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