Re: size of profile

[alexyu]

Mark/mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote, on 04 Feb 20 19:53:


It's been a part of SM for a long time, but it's not a default.
In 'about:config', just set: 
"mailnews.display.show_all_body_parts_menu" to 'true'.


All these years and I didn't know about that one.  Thanks for that.  I 
just happened to have need to do this again.  Enabling that option and 
deleting the "attachment" for an inline image has exactly the same 
effect as what I'd done manually a few times - but much quicker, easier 
and less error-prone!  I'd even been manually tweaking the MIME parts 
for the deleted images so that they show up as "Deleted: ..." in the 
attachments list like normal deleted attachments do.


Yes, I too only discovered it by chance, when someone else mentioned it, 
many years ago. Now I've 'returned the favor' to the community...  :-)


To edit messages' headers, or even their full source, there is an 
extension:


"Header Tools Lite", by Paolo "Kaosmos"


That could be useful on the odd occasion.  I don't often want to edit 
existing messages other than to delete large attachments - which take 
less space saved as separate files and avoids huge mailbox files.


It's an easier way to do what you've been doing up to now, for the cases 
where "all body parts" still doesn't allow deleting an 'attachment' (or 
to keep a message but safely taking out a part with 'dangerous code').


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Re: size of profile

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alexyu wrote:

mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote, on 01 Feb 20 16:19:


alexyu wrote:


NFN Smith wrote, on 31 jan 20 13:44:
For me, one minor annoyance is that there's no way of discarding 
graphical content that's embedded in a message body.




Frequently, you can get rid of such content using this option:

View / Message Body As / All Body Parts

That way, items which are not considered "attachments" can be still 
'deleted' (or perhaps 'detached'), and then you can compact the message.


I'm intrigued, since I occasionally want to do similar (even more 
occasionally, in extreme cases, I've resorted to manually editing the 
mailbox file).  However, on SeaMonkey 2.49.5, the only options I see 
under View / Message Body As are Original HTML, Simple HTML and Plain 
Text.  Is "All Body Parts" a new addition in 2.53 or perhaps added by 
an extension?


It's been a part of SM for a long time, but it's not a default.
In 'about:config', just set: "mailnews.display.show_all_body_parts_menu" 
to 'true'.


All these years and I didn't know about that one.  Thanks for that.  I 
just happened to have need to do this again.  Enabling that option and 
deleting the "attachment" for an inline image has exactly the same 
effect as what I'd done manually a few times - but much quicker, easier 
and less error-prone!  I'd even been manually tweaking the MIME parts 
for the deleted images so that they show up as "Deleted: ..." in the 
attachments list like normal deleted attachments do.


To edit messages' headers, or even their full source, there is an 
extension:


"Header Tools Lite", by Paolo "Kaosmos"


That could be useful on the odd occasion.  I don't often want to edit 
existing messages other than to delete large attachments - which take 
less space saved as separate files and avoids huge mailbox files.


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Re: size of profile

[Smiles]

I do not save everything
last week i had 1866 emails of which 45 were kept
I did a cleaned up of one a archive folder for 2017
it had one group of users I can save data off profile
end result
468 emails cleaned of to 4005 jpg about 1.45gig in size

I also moved the archive for all years before 2018 if needed it is easy 
to restore

Mozilla folder now 7.02gig 6.68gig in the high profile s is going down


Chuck wrote:

NFN Smith wrote:

Smiles wrote:

I compact my emails weekly saving a meg or two.

i backup my profile nightly and off site weekly



By your description, it looks like that you're one of the people
that saves *everything* that ever touches your mailbox. If you're
routinely compacting, I suggest a couple of things for
consideration:

1) Be more aggressive in discarding message traffic that has no
ongoing value. In my own context, that includes things like "me
too" and "thanks" messages (especially ones that quote complete
content of previous messages).

2) Look at getting attachments out of your mail store -- I think
that that's where the bulk of your accumulation is. One of the
tools that's really useful in both Seamonkey and Thunderbird is the
"detach" function.  It's something of hybrid of "save as" and
"delete".  If you right-click on an attachment and detach, that
allows saving the attachment to somewhere in your file system, and
then deletes the attachment from your mail store.  As long as the
saved attachment isn't moved or deleted, then when you view the
message, the attachment is still visible, as if it was still in
your mail store.


I have found this to be true on many users cluttered mail files, be
it SM, TB, Outlook etc.  Gmail is the worse violator as it saves
duplicates of the emails and attachments in multiple folders.
Deleting attachments in one folder, does not usually update the other
saved message copies in the other Gmail folders.

Sorting the folders by size, you can easily find the culprits of
large attachments, Save/delete the attachments for all your folders,
then compact the folders.  It will delete many GB's if you're a heavy
user of attachments.

Message content can be manipulated using multiple steps.  Select 
message, then Message>Edit As New>Save as Draft.  While in draft

folder, it will have the Edit Draft option.  Move the draft message
to appropriate folder, and the Edit icon goes away.  Saving the file,
will flip it to an .html format on the drive, but not in SM.



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Re: size of profile

[Chuck]

NFN Smith wrote:

Smiles wrote:

I compact my emails weekly saving a meg or two.

i backup my profile nightly and off site weekly



By your description, it looks like that you're one of the people that
saves *everything* that ever touches your mailbox. If you're routinely
compacting, I suggest a couple of things for consideration:

1) Be more aggressive in discarding message traffic that has no ongoing
value. In my own context, that includes things like "me too" and
"thanks" messages (especially ones that quote complete content of
previous messages).

2) Look at getting attachments out of your mail store -- I think that
that's where the bulk of your accumulation is. One of the tools that's
really useful in both Seamonkey and Thunderbird is the "detach"
function.  It's something of hybrid of "save as" and "delete".  If you
right-click on an attachment and detach, that allows saving the
attachment to somewhere in your file system, and then deletes the
attachment from your mail store.  As long as the saved attachment isn't
moved or deleted, then when you view the message, the attachment is
still visible, as if it was still in your mail store.


I have found this to be true on many users cluttered mail files, be it 
SM, TB, Outlook etc.  Gmail is the worse violator as it saves duplicates 
of the emails and attachments in multiple folders.  Deleting attachments 
in one folder, does not usually update the other saved message copies in 
the other Gmail folders.


Sorting the folders by size, you can easily find the culprits of large 
attachments, Save/delete the attachments for all your folders, then 
compact the folders.  It will delete many GB's if you're a heavy user of 
attachments.


Message content can be manipulated using multiple steps.  Select 
message, then Message>Edit As New>Save as Draft.  While in draft folder, 
it will have the Edit Draft option.  Move the draft message to 
appropriate folder, and the Edit icon goes away.  Saving the file, will 
flip it to an .html format on the drive, but not in SM.



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Re: size of profile

[alexyu]

mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote, on 01 Feb 20 16:19:


alexyu wrote:


NFN Smith wrote, on 31 jan 20 13:44:
For me, one minor annoyance is that there's no way of discarding 
graphical content that's embedded in a message body.




Frequently, you can get rid of such content using this option:

View / Message Body As / All Body Parts

That way, items which are not considered "attachments" can be still 
'deleted' (or perhaps 'detached'), and then you can compact the message.


I'm intrigued, since I occasionally want to do similar (even more 
occasionally, in extreme cases, I've resorted to manually editing the 
mailbox file).  However, on SeaMonkey 2.49.5, the only options I see 
under View / Message Body As are Original HTML, Simple HTML and Plain 
Text.  Is "All Body Parts" a new addition in 2.53 or perhaps added by an 
extension?


It's been a part of SM for a long time, but it's not a default.
In 'about:config', just set: "mailnews.display.show_all_body_parts_menu" 
to 'true'.


To edit messages' headers, or even their full source, there is an extension:

"Header Tools Lite", by Paolo "Kaosmos"

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Re: size of profile

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alexyu wrote:

NFN Smith wrote, on 31 jan 20 13:44:
For me, one minor annoyance is that there's no way of discarding 
graphical content that's embedded in a message body.




Frequently, you can get rid of such content using this option:

View / Message Body As / All Body Parts

That way, items which are not considered "attachments" can be still 
'deleted' (or perhaps 'detached'), and then you can compact the message.


I'm intrigued, since I occasionally want to do similar (even more 
occasionally, in extreme cases, I've resorted to manually editing the 
mailbox file).  However, on SeaMonkey 2.49.5, the only options I see 
under View / Message Body As are Original HTML, Simple HTML and Plain 
Text.  Is "All Body Parts" a new addition in 2.53 or perhaps added by an 
extension?


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Re: size of profile

[alexyu]

NFN Smith wrote, on 31 jan 20 13:44:


For me, one minor annoyance is that there's no way of discarding 
graphical content that's embedded in a message body.  I have a mailing 
list (sent through a third-party provider), and sometimes, I include 
photos in my mailings.  I have a number of recipients that have the 
habit of top-quoting responses (including photo content), and sometimes, 
I want to keep the response message (e.g., a paragraph or two), even if 
I don't want to keep duplicate copies of my photo originals. I haven't 
found a way of deleting the photos from messages that I want to keep. 
For that, I've taken to sending photos as attachments rather than 
embedding in my content, as replies normally don't include attachments, 
and subsequently, I don't have to keep the duplicated content.


Frequently, you can get rid of such content using this option:

View / Message Body As / All Body Parts

That way, items which are not considered "attachments" can be still 
'deleted' (or perhaps 'detached'), and then you can compact the message.


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Re: size of profile

[Daniel]

Smiles wrote on 1/02/2020 2:41 AM:

I compact my emails weekly saving a meg or two.

i backup my profile nightly and off site weekly

thanks


Ah!! Well!! So much for my bright idea!! ;-)

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Re: size of profile

[NFN Smith]

Smiles wrote:

I compact my emails weekly saving a meg or two.

i backup my profile nightly and off site weekly



By your description, it looks like that you're one of the people that 
saves *everything* that ever touches your mailbox. If you're routinely 
compacting, I suggest a couple of things for consideration:


1) Be more aggressive in discarding message traffic that has no ongoing 
value. In my own context, that includes things like "me too" and 
"thanks" messages (especially ones that quote complete content of 
previous messages).


2) Look at getting attachments out of your mail store -- I think that 
that's where the bulk of your accumulation is. One of the tools that's 
really useful in both Seamonkey and Thunderbird is the "detach" 
function.  It's something of hybrid of "save as" and "delete".  If you 
right-click on an attachment and detach, that allows saving the 
attachment to somewhere in your file system, and then deletes the 
attachment from your mail store.  As long as the saved attachment isn't 
moved or deleted, then when you view the message, the attachment is 
still visible, as if it was still in your mail store.


A related item is that if you frequently send messages with attachments, 
you should be getting rid of the attachments after they've been sent. 
Although you may want to keep the cover message, if the original copy of 
the file is still on your local file system, then you should delete the 
attachment (right-click on the attachment, and select "delete"). There 
really is no reason to keep duplicate copies of files in your mail 
store, especially if you're dealing with space/size issues in your profile.


For me, one minor annoyance is that there's no way of discarding 
graphical content that's embedded in a message body.  I have a mailing 
list (sent through a third-party provider), and sometimes, I include 
photos in my mailings.  I have a number of recipients that have the 
habit of top-quoting responses (including photo content), and sometimes, 
I want to keep the response message (e.g., a paragraph or two), even if 
I don't want to keep duplicate copies of my photo originals. I haven't 
found a way of deleting the photos from messages that I want to keep. 
For that, I've taken to sending photos as attachments rather than 
embedding in my content, as replies normally don't include attachments, 
and subsequently, I don't have to keep the duplicated content.



3) One other thing that you might consider is making a duplicate copy of 
your profile.  When you have two profiles, designate one as "current" 
and the other as "archive", and then set some arbitrary date, say, 5 
years ago.  Then, in the active profile, delete everything that is older 
than that date, and in the archive profile, delete everything that is 
newer than that date.


There's nothing wrong with keeping old stuff, even stuff that's *really* 
old -- in my own collection, I have stuff that goes back nearly 25 
years, although I'm more aggressive about deleting old content. 
However, for stuff that's more than a few months old, that's all 
archival and reference (and where it's very unlikely that you'll do any 
further interaction with that -- certainly, not responding to messages, 
and likely not even doing something like forwarding content.  Get the 
oldest stuff out of your main working profile, and if you need to 
reference, you can go to the archive profile.  If, on the off-chance you 
need to copy old material, to use for something current, you can either 
save individual messages from from the archive profile as .EML files 
(and then import those into the active profile), or do more extensive 
moving with the ImportExport extension.


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[Smiles]

I compact my emails weekly saving a meg or two.

i backup my profile nightly and off site weekly

thanks

Daniel wrote:

Smiles wrote on 31/01/2020 1:52 AM:

I had a problem with one POP account traced to my ISP

but the problem did show a shocking revaluation my total profile in 
app folder is 16.5Gig


having 3 profiles my primary profile is 16.2Gig

what is max size for this folder

I save 15% of all emails in my primary profile
on my primary POP account have emails dating back to year 2000

I have untested emails going back to year 1974 when I started but this 
is not complete as I have had 3 hard drive crashes and did not have a 
backup saved in another locations


thanks


Smiles, you are aware of compacting your profile, aren't you?

When you delete an e-mail, it isn't really deleted, just a bit in its 
header information is changed to indicate that it has been 'deleted', 
but it really is still in your 'Inbox'. It is only when you Compact your 
profile (File - > Empty Trash *AND* File -> Compact Folders) that these 
e-mails are actually deleted. Until this time, your Inbox file is just 
getting Bigger and Bigger and 


But, SAFETY FIRST, as your profile is s big, create a copy of your 
profile and store it in a safe place  THEN  File - > Empty Trash 
*AND* File -> Compact Folders and see what you're left with.


If things stuff up, you have your second copy to resurrect. If things 
work right, make a copy of the reduced profile and then delete the copy 
of the original profile.



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Re: size of profile

[Daniel]

Smiles wrote on 31/01/2020 1:52 AM:

I had a problem with one POP account traced to my ISP

but the problem did show a shocking revaluation my total profile in app 
folder is 16.5Gig


having 3 profiles my primary profile is 16.2Gig

what is max size for this folder

I save 15% of all emails in my primary profile
on my primary POP account have emails dating back to year 2000

I have untested emails going back to year 1974 when I started but this 
is not complete as I have had 3 hard drive crashes and did not have a 
backup saved in another locations


thanks


Smiles, you are aware of compacting your profile, aren't you?

When you delete an e-mail, it isn't really deleted, just a bit in its 
header information is changed to indicate that it has been 'deleted', 
but it really is still in your 'Inbox'. It is only when you Compact your 
profile (File - > Empty Trash *AND* File -> Compact Folders) that these 
e-mails are actually deleted. Until this time, your Inbox file is just 
getting Bigger and Bigger and 


But, SAFETY FIRST, as your profile is s big, create a copy of your 
profile and store it in a safe place  THEN  File - > Empty Trash 
*AND* File -> Compact Folders and see what you're left with.


If things stuff up, you have your second copy to resurrect. If things 
work right, make a copy of the reduced profile and then delete the copy 
of the original profile.


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size of profile

[Smiles]

I had a problem with one POP account traced to my ISP

but the problem did show a shocking revaluation my total profile in app 
folder is 16.5Gig


having 3 profiles my primary profile is 16.2Gig

what is max size for this folder

I save 15% of all emails in my primary profile
on my primary POP account have emails dating back to year 2000

I have untested emails going back to year 1974 when I started but this 
is not complete as I have had 3 hard drive crashes and did not have a 
backup saved in another locations


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Re: Inflated Size Of Profile?

[Larry S.]

mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote:

Larry S. wrote:

Been getting slow response recently from SM--rotating circle for a while
until selected item comes in (mail and browser, but especially mail). I
see a couple of large items in my profile--places and webappsstore
sqlite files.


How large is "large"? My places.sqlite is 20MB, and webappsstore.sqlite
is 96KB.

I think webappsstore is used for "Offline Storage", which I've disabled
at Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Offline Apps and is probably why that
one's so small for me. I guess it might be worth trying to clear offline
storage data for websites which you don't need it (at the same
preferences page) and then setting it to only allow specific sites.


Also, I have DOM inspector and Javascript debugger both disabled,and
never use them.

Could (should)I delete any of these files? Would doing so create any
problems for me? Other thoughts about the slow response?


I don't expect removing the DOM Inspector and Javascript Debugger
extensions would make much difference, particularly as they're disabled.
The Javascript Debugger which used to be included in a default
installation of SeaMonkey isn't compatible with recent versions of
SeaMonkey (2.29 on I believe), so you may as well remove it. DOM
Inspector is still usually [1] included; you should be able to remove it
if you don't use or want it, but I doubt doing so will help much with
general responsiveness since it's already disabled.

[1] Not in 2.46 due to build issues, although it can be installed
separately and you've probably already got it from a previous version of
SeaMonkey.

My "places" is 51Mb and "webappstore" is 9Mb. I looked into off-line 
storage, and it shows 0 (I cleared it anyhow, just in case, but nothing 
happened). Thus I suspect that the "webappstore" isn't, in fact, 
something to do with off-line activity. Oh, well, still not finding the 
problem.


Larry S.
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Re: Inflated Size Of Profile?

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Larry S. wrote:

Been getting slow response recently from SM--rotating circle for a while
until selected item comes in (mail and browser, but especially mail). I
see a couple of large items in my profile--places and webappsstore
sqlite files.


How large is "large"? My places.sqlite is 20MB, and webappsstore.sqlite 
is 96KB.


I think webappsstore is used for "Offline Storage", which I've disabled 
at Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Offline Apps and is probably why that 
one's so small for me. I guess it might be worth trying to clear offline 
storage data for websites which you don't need it (at the same 
preferences page) and then setting it to only allow specific sites.



Also, I have DOM inspector and Javascript debugger both disabled,and
never use them.

Could (should)I delete any of these files? Would doing so create any
problems for me? Other thoughts about the slow response?


I don't expect removing the DOM Inspector and Javascript Debugger 
extensions would make much difference, particularly as they're disabled. 
The Javascript Debugger which used to be included in a default 
installation of SeaMonkey isn't compatible with recent versions of 
SeaMonkey (2.29 on I believe), so you may as well remove it. DOM 
Inspector is still usually [1] included; you should be able to remove it 
if you don't use or want it, but I doubt doing so will help much with 
general responsiveness since it's already disabled.


[1] Not in 2.46 due to build issues, although it can be installed 
separately and you've probably already got it from a previous version of 
SeaMonkey.


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Re: Inflated Size Of Profile?

[David E. Ross]

On 1/2/2017 9:40 AM, Larry S. wrote:
> Been getting slow response recently from SM--rotating circle for a while 
> until selected item comes in (mail and browser, but especially mail). I 
> see a couple of large items in my profile--places and webappsstore 
> sqlite files.
> 
> Also, I have DOM inspector and Javascript debugger both disabled,and 
> never use them.
> 
> Could (should)I delete any of these files? Would doing so create any 
> problems for me? Other thoughts about the slow response?
> 
> All advice gratefully appreciated.
> 
> Larry S.
> 

I forgot the following.

Besides the "normal" cache, which gets deleted when you request to
delete it or never gets created if you so specify, there are special
caches in your profile.  Just do a search on the string "cache" (without
the quotes).

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Re: Inflated Size Of Profile?

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On 1/4/2017 7:23 PM, Larry S. wrote:
> David E. Ross wrote:
>> On 1/2/2017 9:40 AM, Larry S. wrote:
>>> Been getting slow response recently from SM--rotating circle for a while
>>> until selected item comes in (mail and browser, but especially mail). I
>>> see a couple of large items in my profile--places and webappsstore
>>> sqlite files.
>>>
>>> Also, I have DOM inspector and Javascript debugger both disabled,and
>>> never use them.
>>>
>>> Could (should)I delete any of these files? Would doing so create any
>>> problems for me? Other thoughts about the slow response?
>>>
>>> All advice gratefully appreciated.
>>>
>>> Larry S.
>>>
>>
>> Most .sqlite files (which are actually databases) are likely important.
>> They include not only cookies (which you might not want) but also your
>> bookmarks, information on extensions you installed, and permissions you
>> have granted or prohibited.
>>
>> The problem with .sqlite databases is that, when entries are removed,
>> the spaces for the removed entries remain.  Also, Mozilla in its
>> "wisdom" (??) causes some .sqlite databases to be initialized for more
>> entries than are necessary.
>>
>> You might try SpeedyFox from .
>> This application removes empty spaces and otherwise cleans up .sqlite
>> databases.  It works not only for SeaMonkey but also for Firefox,
>> Thunderbird, Skype, and any other application that uses the SQLite
>> database application.  To use SpeedyFox after you install it, select
>> SpeedyFox from its menu bar and add the various profiles you want cleaned.
>>
> SpeedyFox sounds good. However, when I try to download it I get the 
> message "The download cannot be saved because an unknown error 
> occurred". This has happened numerous times.
> Any suggestions?
> Larry S.
> "
> 

I just downloaded version 2.0.18 (actually 2.0.18.110) without any
problem.

The download links are about half-way down the Web page at
.  The download files are .zip
files, not installers.  The unzipped contents are the executables.
Unzip the file and move the result to where you want it to reside.  For
Windows, copy it and paste a shortcut from where you can execute it.

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Re: Inflated Size Of Profile?

[Larry S.]

David E. Ross wrote:

On 1/2/2017 9:40 AM, Larry S. wrote:

Been getting slow response recently from SM--rotating circle for a while
until selected item comes in (mail and browser, but especially mail). I
see a couple of large items in my profile--places and webappsstore
sqlite files.

Also, I have DOM inspector and Javascript debugger both disabled,and
never use them.

Could (should)I delete any of these files? Would doing so create any
problems for me? Other thoughts about the slow response?

All advice gratefully appreciated.

Larry S.



Most .sqlite files (which are actually databases) are likely important.
They include not only cookies (which you might not want) but also your
bookmarks, information on extensions you installed, and permissions you
have granted or prohibited.

The problem with .sqlite databases is that, when entries are removed,
the spaces for the removed entries remain.  Also, Mozilla in its
"wisdom" (??) causes some .sqlite databases to be initialized for more
entries than are necessary.

You might try SpeedyFox from .
This application removes empty spaces and otherwise cleans up .sqlite
databases.  It works not only for SeaMonkey but also for Firefox,
Thunderbird, Skype, and any other application that uses the SQLite
database application.  To use SpeedyFox after you install it, select
SpeedyFox from its menu bar and add the various profiles you want cleaned.

SpeedyFox sounds good. However, when I try to download it I get the 
message "The download cannot be saved because an unknown error 
occurred". This has happened numerous times.

Any suggestions?
Larry S.
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Re: Inflated Size Of Profile?

[David E. Ross]

On 1/2/2017 9:40 AM, Larry S. wrote:
> Been getting slow response recently from SM--rotating circle for a while 
> until selected item comes in (mail and browser, but especially mail). I 
> see a couple of large items in my profile--places and webappsstore 
> sqlite files.
> 
> Also, I have DOM inspector and Javascript debugger both disabled,and 
> never use them.
> 
> Could (should)I delete any of these files? Would doing so create any 
> problems for me? Other thoughts about the slow response?
> 
> All advice gratefully appreciated.
> 
> Larry S.
> 

Most .sqlite files (which are actually databases) are likely important.
They include not only cookies (which you might not want) but also your
bookmarks, information on extensions you installed, and permissions you
have granted or prohibited.

The problem with .sqlite databases is that, when entries are removed,
the spaces for the removed entries remain.  Also, Mozilla in its
"wisdom" (??) causes some .sqlite databases to be initialized for more
entries than are necessary.

You might try SpeedyFox from .
This application removes empty spaces and otherwise cleans up .sqlite
databases.  It works not only for SeaMonkey but also for Firefox,
Thunderbird, Skype, and any other application that uses the SQLite
database application.  To use SpeedyFox after you install it, select
SpeedyFox from its menu bar and add the various profiles you want cleaned.

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Inflated Size Of Profile?

[Larry S.]

Been getting slow response recently from SM--rotating circle for a while 
until selected item comes in (mail and browser, but especially mail). I 
see a couple of large items in my profile--places and webappsstore 
sqlite files.


Also, I have DOM inspector and Javascript debugger both disabled,and 
never use them.


Could (should)I delete any of these files? Would doing so create any 
problems for me? Other thoughts about the slow response?


All advice gratefully appreciated.

Larry S.
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