NFN Smith wrote:
Smiles wrote:
I compact my emails weekly saving a meg or two.
i backup my profile nightly and off site weekly
By your description, it looks like that you're one of the people that
saves *everything* that ever touches your mailbox. If you're routinely
compacting, I suggest a couple of things for consideration:
1) Be more aggressive in discarding message traffic that has no ongoing
value. In my own context, that includes things like "me too" and
"thanks" messages (especially ones that quote complete content of
previous messages).
2) Look at getting attachments out of your mail store -- I think that
that's where the bulk of your accumulation is. One of the tools that's
really useful in both Seamonkey and Thunderbird is the "detach"
function. It's something of hybrid of "save as" and "delete". If you
right-click on an attachment and detach, that allows saving the
attachment to somewhere in your file system, and then deletes the
attachment from your mail store. As long as the saved attachment isn't
moved or deleted, then when you view the message, the attachment is
still visible, as if it was still in your mail store.
I have found this to be true on many users cluttered mail files, be it
SM, TB, Outlook etc. Gmail is the worse violator as it saves duplicates
of the emails and attachments in multiple folders. Deleting attachments
in one folder, does not usually update the other saved message copies in
the other Gmail folders.
Sorting the folders by size, you can easily find the culprits of large
attachments, Save/delete the attachments for all your folders, then
compact the folders. It will delete many GB's if you're a heavy user of
attachments.
Message content can be manipulated using multiple steps. Select
message, then Message>Edit As New>Save as Draft. While in draft folder,
it will have the Edit Draft option. Move the draft message to
appropriate folder, and the Edit icon goes away. Saving the file, will
flip it to an .html format on the drive, but not in SM.
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