Hi,
While doing a scan of Thunderbird's Profile folder recently with
Bullguard, I was amazed to find that very old messages were still
present and being scanned. Even messages from an account which had been
removed a couple of months ago were still there. It seems that although
messages are deleted from both the inbox and trash box, Thunderbird
moves them to another part of the Profile folder and retains them.
Over many years of using Thunderbird,several computer and Windows
updates, I had just copied the profile folder with all its settings from
one computer to another. The folder grew to about 6.5 gb in size and
when doing the scan, the reason for the growing size became obvious.
To get rid of the old messages, the following steps were taken.
The Mozzilla backup utility was used with email and history options
unchecked.
The three files in the Thunderbird folder, including the Profile folder,
were renamed followed by an install of the latest Tbird. This gave a
clean Profile folder of only a few megs in size.
The Mozzilla utility was then used to copy the settings for three
accounts back into the clean Profile folder. The size of the folder
only went up to about 14 mb.
The current size is about 24 mb but after using the compact folder item
found in the File menu as well as the remove history in the Tools menu,
the size drops down to around 18 mb.
In future, if the Profile folder continues to growafter using the two
items mentioned above, I'll consider using the Mozzilla backup utility
as explained above to keep the folder under control.
I suggest you check the size of your Profile folder particularly if
Thunderbird has been your email client for an extended time.
Cheers
Neville.
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