My inbox was 5.7 Megs yesterday.
Nothing helped. Choosing the 'menu option' for
'compact folder' did absolutely nothing, since Mozilla
kept insisting on claiming 'I know better'.
Yes, I made sure the right folder was clicked-on first, blah, blah,
blah...
So, i moved the only two messages 'left' (undeleted)
-- each about 2k -- from Inbox to drafts.
Then Inbox went to zero bytes.
Then I moved the two messages back to inbox.
This is one time that I am able to precisely state
what's going on.
But I am pretty sure the compacting of the folders
simply fails MOST OF THE TIME. I am not a hyper guy.
I tend to quit when I am done, but I sure do give
mozilla atleast 5 - 10 secs to get compacting started.
I really loved the 'compact all folders' menu-feature in old netscape.
Or should i put that as 'Shut up, and force compacting even
if the index file says otherwise'.
Or 'wipe out the index files, and compact everything N O W'.
Am I right in guessing that a 'slow non-intrusive' thread
runs in the background compacting folders-with-changes?
That thread needs to be made more robust. If for some
reason it fails, there is no way I can walk thru the myriad
subfolders checking for which one needs compacting.
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Finally, if I delete the index files, will Mozilla simple
regenerate them WITHOUT compacting or does index-generation
involve compacting first.
Is there a way to (IN A 100% guaranteed fashion) force mozilla
to compact a specific folder (let me not complicate things by
asking for a 'compact-ALL' feature request)?
Oops. One more 'final' request :- a command line tool to compact
if <u-kno-what-i-mean> is not available in mozilla...
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P.S: Don't get put off by the anxiety attack depicted above.
It just goes to show how important mozilla-mail-new is, here.
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