Make "compact files" an automatic process
Categories
(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: lisamiller9891, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.7113.93 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce:
A popup asking whether I would like to compact files and folders appears.
Expected results:
The popup should not appear.
The mechanism should automatically decide if and when to apply compacting.
This is because
- Most people would not know what this means,
- Those who have some idea, might assume that compacting is a good thing by default because it saves space, or a bad thing by default because compacting might mean things need to decompress to view them, losing performance.
- It is not something most other email systems use, why does thunderbird need to?
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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Thanks L, that's a worthwhile idea, on record as Bug 286888 for the default. It's already possible to make it automatic.
We've improved the prompt for TB 91 to mitigate the confusion. Prompt also now has a link to documentation.
See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compacting-folders, which also shows how to make it automatic if you wish.
(In reply to Thomas D. (:thomas8) from comment #1)
Thanks L, that's a worthwhile idea, on record as Bug 286888 for the default. It's already possible to make it automatic.
We've improved the prompt for TB 91 to mitigate the confusion. Prompt also now has a link to documentation.
See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compacting-folders, which also shows how to make it automatic if you wish.*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 286888 ***
Thanks Thomas, I made a comment on the bug you link, though I stand by my suggestion: If you need to link users to a page that explains how to make the task automatic, you should be making the task automatic by default.
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