Daniel wrote:
On 1/07/2015 12:25 AM, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
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Sounds like you have not compacted your account folders. As been
explained SeaMonkey/Thunderbird stores mail in a version mbox format.
As explained *by ME* elsewhere.
Sorry confusing you and OP, since OP tends to create new threads instead
of replying to the original thread.
All messages in a "folder" are just a single contiguous text file.A
flag in the header of each message is set to "delete" the message, but
the message data is still there until you compact the folder and the
mbox file is parsed and regenerated to remove the messages marked as
deleted.
Gee, Jonathan, if the size of my account folders indicates to you that I
need to Compact *MY* folders, I wonder what size the equivalent folders
are on your HD are!!
Okay, compaction only works on the Mail folders of course. My *Mail*
folders are a total of 4.15 GB for 3 accounts, compacted. My whole
profile folder (which contains the Mail folders) is only 4.65 GB, i.e.
only 500MB of non-mail data. So the question is why do you have 3+GB of
stuff in your profile excluding your mail data? That is if I understand
you correctly. I can safely say that is not typical.
But back to the OP, what I said still holds.
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Take care,
Jonathan
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