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.
ch
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