On 2/07/2015 12:33 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Daniel wrote:
On 1/07/2015 12:25 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
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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.
Sorry confusing you and OP, since OP tends to create new threads instead
of replying to the original thread.
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!!
Okay, compaction only works on the Mail folders of course. My *Mail*
folders are a total of 4.15 GB for 3 accounts, compacted. My whole
profile folder (which contains the Mail folders) is only 4.65 GB, i.e.
only 500MB of non-mail data. So the question is why do you have 3+GB of
stuff in your profile excluding your mail data? That is if I understand
you correctly. I can safely say that is not typical.
Jonathan, when you (or I) create a new Profile, it is made at one level
below where you (or I) tell SM where to make it. *And I almost always
get caught out by that* so my profile is contained at H:\Internet
_Programs\Profile\Profile\Mail\mail.albury.net.au, and *yes* I did mean
to type Profile twice, and I think I might have another old profile
further down the chain.
Similarly, my Local Folders is contained at H:\Internet
_Programs\Profile\Profile\Mail\Local Folders.
One day, I'll do a complete re-install of SeaMonkey (Both Win32 and
Linux) and get my profile sorted out once and for all!! One Day ... ;-P
And I do have eighteen Extensions and eleven plug-ins installed, and,
because of the stuff-ups I've mentioned above, some of these could be
installed (and not operating) at two or even three levels!! :-(
So there are my problems!! Now, Jonathan, why is all your Mail accounts
sitting at 4.15GB?? Is this just your "This Years" Mail, or does it
include past years mail (that you don't touch from month to month??
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Daniel
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