.nylas-mail /.nylas folder size is unworkable!

Since Installed Nylas Mail last week I’ve been suffering with lack of space on my MacBook Pro (120GB drive) with free space hovering around the 2-3GB mark. OS is obviously warning me a lot about this lack of space and I’m suffering a performance hit across the board.

I’ve found that the root cause of this is that my hidden .nylas* folders total to over 17GB of space on my machine. I’m presuming this is the cache but it seems like it could be an entire copy of my gmail email folders locally at that size. For me this is completely unusable and to quite a shocking find. I’ve had to uninstall the app but surely there should be a way of limiting this local cache (if that is what it is) to only bring down X days worth of history…with the rest having to be fetched from online.

Someone else I was chatting to on nylas’ slack claimed their folder was 22GB.

To sum up - the app on the surface is great but that is a crazy amount of drive space to be hogging essentially making the entire app unfit for purpose. If I’ve missed something (like a setting to prevent this) I’ll hold my hands up but if not it really needs to be fixed.

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What operating system are you using?

Mac OS Sierra

What version of Nylas Mail are you using?

1.0.48

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Bug?

Do you have any third-party plugins installed? If so, which ones?

No

Is the issue related to a specific email provider (Gmail, Exchange, etc.)?

No

Is the issue reproducible with a particular attachment, message, signature, etc?

Nylas app issue

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Feature Request?

Does this feature exist in another mail client or tool you use?

No

[jstejada]

thanks for bringing this up! we’re working on some improvements to reduce disk usage!

[riccardolardi]

Totally agree on having an option to limit email cache size. On MacOS I used Newton Mail which if I remember correctly only caches emails in your inbox but not sent, trash or archived emails - quite a viable solution for me as I’d rather wait some seconds for deleted or sent emails to pop up rather than having 20+ GB of email data filling my disc.