Peter’s Blog

One of my IMAP accounts is taking up over 400 mb on the server and is causing problems, such as bounced messages, so I set out to download all the old messages to my computer and then wipe the data from the server. Unfortunately, Mail.app (my primary mail client) doesn’t have any sort of Export or ‘Copy to local machine’ function, so I had to develop a work around.

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Spotlight has literally changed how I use my computer. I no longer worry (as much) about the location of my files and instead just search for them whenever I want to open them or attach them to emails. Brilliant.

Oh course, I do wish it was faster. I know there are other options (I’ve installed both Google Desktop, specifically for web history caches, and Quicksilver), but Spotlight is still my favorite.

I am having a bitch of a time finding a good, and ideally free, program to sync folders on OS X. I really miss PathSync (for Windows only) right now.