Norvin wrote:
Norvin wrote:
...
As a follow-up to clarify my problem, I have a file that I will call
'sent emails' and it was getting very large
Did it contain any non-deleted e-mail messages? (That is, if in SeaMonkey
you opened the "send emails" folder that that file implemented, did
SeaMonkey t say there were a non-zero number of messages in the folder?)
> and I clicked the 'compact
folder' thinking it would give me some options. It didn't but proceeded
to do its thing. After some time, the file showed '0' files and nothing
showed up.
(Do you mean zero _messages_ there?)
If SeaMonkey reports a different number of e-mail messages in a folder
right before and right after compaction, then either:
1) the index (.msf) file had already gotten out of sync with the main
file implementing that folder (in which case the folder Rebuild Index
command would have re-synced things and changed the number of messages
reported), or
2) something went wrong during compaction.
Normally at least, I would not suspect a bug in compaction. (I've been
manually editing and then compacting lots of mail files to fix corruption
from some other SeaMonkey (1.1.x) bug, and haven't noticed any buggy
behavior in compaction itself. Compaction copies to a temporary file and
renames it to replace the original file only after completing copying, so
something like killing SeaMonkey while it's compacting won't leave you
with a half-copied mail folder file--just a half-copied temporary file,
which SeaMonkey ignores.)
Daniel
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