Re: Seamonkey Mail Drafts and Junk Folder Corrupted
On 31/10/2014 9:17 AM, mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: David S wrote: On Thursday, October 30, 2014 3:17:51 AM UTC-7, Daniel wrote: On 30/10/14 15:17, david wrote: Using 2.26.1, Vista, and seemed that Mail is acting really slow. Then found that several mail folders contain HUGE files for empty folders. The Drafts folder has a size of 1.2GB and it contains no drafts (empty) while the Junk folder is shown as 195MB and is empty as well. I have hit the Repair Folder button several times for each folder, with no change. Then I deleted their respective .msf files, and no change as well. Inbox folder contains messages but file space reserved seems high as well. Then I considered whether I had corrupt disc file space and used CheckDisc to scan entire C drive. Checkdisc did not find any disc corruption. Any ideas on how to fix this? Delete the Drafts and Junk Folders manually and reinstall Seamonkey? Thanks David, did you try File-Empty Trash and then File-Compact Folders? When SM deletes a file (or copys to another folder, I think), the file is not actually removed from the Inbox, it is marked for deletion and made invisible. When you Empty Trash *and then* Compact Folders, it is actually deleted, releasing all saved space back to your system. I'm guessing the same would apply to your Draft folder as well. -- Daniel Thanks Daniel, that did the job, and released 10GB of space on the HD. You might want to take a look at the option: Edit Preferences Mail Newsgroups Network Storage Compact all folders when it will save over [...] MB in total SeaMonkey will then prompt you to compact folders when compacting folders would save more than that amount of space. If you find it keeps popping up too often, you can always increase the threshold. Mark. Good one, Mark. I had forgotten about the auto-setting. -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.29 Build identifier: 20140829003846 or User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.30 Build identifier: 20141009214701 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Seamonkey Mail Drafts and Junk Folder Corrupted
On 30/10/14 15:17, david.szafran...@gmail.com wrote: Using 2.26.1, Vista, and seemed that Mail is acting really slow. Then found that several mail folders contain HUGE files for empty folders. The Drafts folder has a size of 1.2GB and it contains no drafts (empty) while the Junk folder is shown as 195MB and is empty as well. I have hit the Repair Folder button several times for each folder, with no change. Then I deleted their respective .msf files, and no change as well. Inbox folder contains messages but file space reserved seems high as well. Then I considered whether I had corrupt disc file space and used CheckDisc to scan entire C drive. Checkdisc did not find any disc corruption. Any ideas on how to fix this? Delete the Drafts and Junk Folders manually and reinstall Seamonkey? Thanks David, did you try File-Empty Trash and then File-Compact Folders? When SM deletes a file (or copys to another folder, I think), the file is not actually removed from the Inbox, it is marked for deletion and made invisible. When you Empty Trash *and then* Compact Folders, it is actually deleted, releasing all saved space back to your system. I'm guessing the same would apply to your Draft folder as well. -- Daniel User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.29 Build identifier: 20140829003846 or User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.30 Build identifier: 20141009214701 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Seamonkey Mail Drafts and Junk Folder Corrupted
On Thursday, October 30, 2014 3:17:51 AM UTC-7, Daniel wrote: On 30/10/14 15:17, david wrote: Using 2.26.1, Vista, and seemed that Mail is acting really slow. Then found that several mail folders contain HUGE files for empty folders. The Drafts folder has a size of 1.2GB and it contains no drafts (empty) while the Junk folder is shown as 195MB and is empty as well. I have hit the Repair Folder button several times for each folder, with no change. Then I deleted their respective .msf files, and no change as well. Inbox folder contains messages but file space reserved seems high as well. Then I considered whether I had corrupt disc file space and used CheckDisc to scan entire C drive. Checkdisc did not find any disc corruption. Any ideas on how to fix this? Delete the Drafts and Junk Folders manually and reinstall Seamonkey? Thanks David, did you try File-Empty Trash and then File-Compact Folders? When SM deletes a file (or copys to another folder, I think), the file is not actually removed from the Inbox, it is marked for deletion and made invisible. When you Empty Trash *and then* Compact Folders, it is actually deleted, releasing all saved space back to your system. I'm guessing the same would apply to your Draft folder as well. -- Daniel Thanks Daniel, that did the job, and released 10GB of space on the HD. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Seamonkey Mail Drafts and Junk Folder Corrupted
David S wrote: On Thursday, October 30, 2014 3:17:51 AM UTC-7, Daniel wrote: On 30/10/14 15:17, david wrote: Using 2.26.1, Vista, and seemed that Mail is acting really slow. Then found that several mail folders contain HUGE files for empty folders. The Drafts folder has a size of 1.2GB and it contains no drafts (empty) while the Junk folder is shown as 195MB and is empty as well. I have hit the Repair Folder button several times for each folder, with no change. Then I deleted their respective .msf files, and no change as well. Inbox folder contains messages but file space reserved seems high as well. Then I considered whether I had corrupt disc file space and used CheckDisc to scan entire C drive. Checkdisc did not find any disc corruption. Any ideas on how to fix this? Delete the Drafts and Junk Folders manually and reinstall Seamonkey? Thanks David, did you try File-Empty Trash and then File-Compact Folders? When SM deletes a file (or copys to another folder, I think), the file is not actually removed from the Inbox, it is marked for deletion and made invisible. When you Empty Trash *and then* Compact Folders, it is actually deleted, releasing all saved space back to your system. I'm guessing the same would apply to your Draft folder as well. -- Daniel Thanks Daniel, that did the job, and released 10GB of space on the HD. You might want to take a look at the option: Edit Preferences Mail Newsgroups Network Storage Compact all folders when it will save over [...] MB in total SeaMonkey will then prompt you to compact folders when compacting folders would save more than that amount of space. If you find it keeps popping up too often, you can always increase the threshold. Mark. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Seamonkey Mail Drafts and Junk Folder Corrupted
Using 2.26.1, Vista, and seemed that Mail is acting really slow. Then found that several mail folders contain HUGE files for empty folders. The Drafts folder has a size of 1.2GB and it contains no drafts (empty) while the Junk folder is shown as 195MB and is empty as well. I have hit the Repair Folder button several times for each folder, with no change. Then I deleted their respective .msf files, and no change as well. Inbox folder contains messages but file space reserved seems high as well. Then I considered whether I had corrupt disc file space and used CheckDisc to scan entire C drive. Checkdisc did not find any disc corruption. Any ideas on how to fix this? Delete the Drafts and Junk Folders manually and reinstall Seamonkey? Thanks ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
