Daniel wrote:
On 2/07/2015 12:33 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
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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
Okay, I have installed SeaMonkey on Windows and Linux and moved profiles
back and forth from both and crosswise, i.e., from Windows to Linux.
Default locations for profiles is in a folder named with a random salt,
but you can name it anything you want.
Windows: %APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\[SALT].default
Linux: ~/mozilla/seamonkey/Profiles\[SALT].default
You can sort out your profile location very easily, *without*
reinstalling SeaMonkey. All you have to do is edit the profile location
config file: profiles.ini. The location of the profiles.ini is:
Windows: %APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\profiles.ini
Linux: ~/mozilla/seamonkey/profiles.ini
So for example if you would like to move your Windows profile to:
H:\Internet_Programs\MyProgfile
where your mail path would be:
H:\Internet_Programs\MyProgfile\Mail\mail.albury.net.au
then edit in notepad: %APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\profiles.ini
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
; Change profile name if you wish
Name=default
; Default profile location is relative to this file
; but since you have it under another path use its
; full path and set this value to false
IsRelative=0
; Now use FULL path to profile
Path=H:\Internet_Programs\MyProgfile
Save file and start SeaMonkey and you profile will be exactly where you
want it.
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!! :-(
Yeah but 3 GB worth? Don't think so. You profile folder "whatever\foo"
excluding your mail data in "whatever\foo\Mail\..." is just text files,
some sqlite dbs, some json files, and some zipped jars,... I cannot
imagine what would take up so much space unless you have some erroneous
cruft in there.
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??
Nope, I said archived 16 years. My wife and I are artists and after I
dump spam and adverts I keep everything else. The nature of my business
my emails often have media attachments as we and clients send images
back and forth.
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Take care,
Jonathan
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http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com
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