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.
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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.
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Daniel
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