Hey all,
Could very well be. I found more references to it on the net, but not
with any particular common theme. Come to think of it, I imagine that if
it broke every time there was a >250mb folder, it'd be more widespread.
It's also possible it was linked to threaded view. I turned on thread
I will come down on both sides of the argument. I've had the problem
where it repeatedly rebuilds the indeces. Annoying. It doesn't now. I
have to say I honestly don't remember what I did, so I'm going to assume
that it was simply upgrading. I don't know the sizes of my mailboxes,
but one of t
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:40:52AM -0400, David J Berube wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> [...]
> (Also note that if you don't compact your inboxes, they may reach this
> size even if you carefully prone your folders.)
That reminded me I needed to compact my folders. I went from a
directory size of 780M to
David,
A friend of mine (Lukas Grunwald, a security expert from Germany) is sitting
beside me and he says that his email folder is 6.8 GBytes.
He suggests that it may be the filesystem you are using, and if it is fragmented
or if you have a particular type of journaling turned on, that may be the
Hey all,
Apparently Thunderbird can 't have 250mb+ folders. A hundred 50mb
folders is OK, but one 250mb folder makes it freak out - it spends a
really long time building a summary file every time you click on an
inbox, you can't view email titles but not the body of the email, etc.
(This caus
