1559277 - "Compact Folders" popup message contains preposterously huge estimate of disk space to be saved

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1260698

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[R.P.C. Rodgers]

Attachment: 2019_06_12_T-bird_Bug.jpg.pdf

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0

Steps to reproduce:

Periodically as I work in the 3-pane message window of Thunderbird, a popup message appears, asking if I want to compact folders to save disk apace. The appearance of the popup is not abnormal in itself, and presumably appears as a result of the account settings I used.

Actual results:

The popup message contains a preposterously huge estimate for the space to be saved (235084 GB in the example screen capture I include in this report). I don't know if them "GB" should be "MB" (doubtful), or if the number is simply miscalculated somehow.

Expected results:

A realistic number for the estimate of disk space to be saved should presumably have appeared.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

This is bug 1260698. Unfortunately we don't yet have a solution