Steve Carroll wrote: > I've notices the automatic creation of a nstmp folder now and then --- > sometimes it's empty, sometimes it has bunches of messages in it. The > last time it appeared seemed to be folllowing a crash while trying to > compact my inbox. Which build are you using? I think bienvenu fixed a crasher bug in folder compaction recently. > when I restarted mozilla my inbox was EMPTY (oh no!) > but the nstmp folder contained those files plus some other "junk" I'd > deleted from the trash. If you can reproduce this with a recent build, can you start a bug and assign it to bienvenu? > Is that the purpose of the nstmp folder? A kind of safeguard when > performing potentially fatal operations like compacting, deleting or > moving batches of files? From a quick glance at the code (http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mailnews/base/src/nsMsgFolderCompactor.cpp) it looks like we take the folder to compact, iterate over all the messages and create a temporary folder and temporary summary file. when we are done, if everything went ok, we over-write the uncompacted versions of the folder and the summary file with the compact version. -Seth
