On 1/07/2015 12:25 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Daniel wrote:
On 30/06/2015 3:27 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Daniel wrote:
On 29/06/2015 12:25 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
This is with proper emptying trash and junk and compacting. I just
have
archived my messages for the past 16 years.
That may be the difference!!..... I archive all my (19 years) e-mails,
etc, in folders under the "Local Folders", so my main Mail account only
has this years stuff!
Not sure that would make much of a difference, stored the same way just
a different file name in your Mail directory. Anyway I used to do it
manually with a custom folder "Archive/YEAR" in the profile before the
archive feature was added. Afterwards all I had to do was rename
"Archive" to "Archives".
"stored the same way just a different file name in your Mail directory"
Jonathan, whilst my complete Profile comes in at 4.09GB (surprised me
it was that big!!), my actual mail account is only 21.7MB, and my "Local
Folders" (which contains my 19 years of archived mail) is 573MB.
Sounds like you have not compacted your account folders. As been
explained SeaMonkey/Thunderbird stores mail in a version mbox format.
As explained *by ME* elsewhere.
All messages in a "folder" are just a single contiguous text file.A
flag in the header of each message is set to "delete" the message, but
the message data is still there until you compact the folder and the
mbox file is parsed and regenerated to remove the messages marked as
deleted.
Gee, Jonathan, if the size of my account folders indicates to you that I
need to Compact *MY* folders, I wonder what size the equivalent folders
are on your HD are!!
--
Daniel
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