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(In reply to Dan Pernokis from comment #39)
> ... It's just that the on-going progress displays and the completion message are so fleeting.  The automatic Get-Messages still run and their displays on the status bar overwrite any messages from the compact.  The completion message should be in a persistent popup so the user knows the process is over.  Otherwise (and presuming no type of crash) it could be a guess if the user wants to quit TB for any reason.

This change isn't going to happen here. And to be honest is unlikely to ever happen.  For one thing, we don't want anything to force or imply the user cannot continue with their work.  Secondly, and to dispel concerns about dataloss, shutting down Thunderbird during compact does not result in problems nor dataloss.  And as far as I know we don't have any such bug reports.

It has been pointed out that the process surrounding compact may not be perfect process and there may be contradictions - this bug isn't about those issues, and so won't attempt to address them - you can learn about most of them by finding and reading other bug reports, it will be time well spent. 

No, let's now solve wording of the dialog.  Be aware that if any comments goes off-topic the bug will be changed to restrict comments, which will reduce participation. Thank you for your cooperation.

(In reply to Dan Pernokis from comment #39)
> ... It's just that the on-going progress displays and the completion message are so fleeting.  The automatic Get-Messages still run and their displays on the status bar overwrite any messages from the compact.  The completion message should be in a persistent popup so the user knows the process is over.  Otherwise (and presuming no type of crash) it could be a guess if the user wants to quit TB for any reason.

This change isn't going to happen here. And to be honest is unlikely to ever happen.  For one thing, we don't want anything to force or imply the user cannot continue with their work.  Secondly, and to dispel concerns about dataloss, shutting down Thunderbird during compact does not result in problems nor dataloss.  And as far as I know we don't have any such bug reports.

It has been pointed out that the process surrounding compact may not be perfect process and there may be contradictions - this bug isn't about those issues, and so won't attempt to address them - you can learn about most of them by finding and reading other bug reports, it will be time well spent. 

Now, let's now solve wording of the dialog.  Be aware that if any comments goes off-topic the bug will be changed to restrict comments, which will reduce participation. Thank you for your cooperation.

(In reply to Dan Pernokis from comment #39)
> ... It's just that the on-going progress displays and the completion message are so fleeting.  The automatic Get-Messages still run and their displays on the status bar overwrite any messages from the compact.  The completion message should be in a persistent popup so the user knows the process is over.  Otherwise (and presuming no type of crash) it could be a guess if the user wants to quit TB for any reason.

This change isn't going to happen here. And to be honest is unlikely to ever happen.  For one thing, we don't want anything to force or imply the user cannot continue with their work.  Secondly, and to dispel concerns about dataloss, shutting down Thunderbird during compact does not result in problems nor dataloss.  And as far as I know we don't have any such bug reports.

It has been pointed out that the process surrounding compact may not be perfect process and there may be contradictions - **this bug isn't about those issues**, and so won't attempt to address them - you can learn about most of them by finding and reading other bug reports, it will be time well spent. 

Now, **let's now solve wording of the dialog.  Be aware that if any comments goes off-topic the bug will be changed to restrict comments, which will reduce participation. Thank you for your cooperation.**