1889755 - using too much storage (1.3TB) - mailbox corruption

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1878541

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[dan]

Attachment: storage_error.png showing very high disk usage

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:125.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0

Steps to reproduce:

I'll begin by apologizing, i can't tell you what happened, or what i did. to my knowledge, i didn't do anything out of the ordinary.

Actual results:

One of my email accounts chewed up 1.3TB (yes, terabytes, not 1.3 thunderbirds lol) of storage. I'll attach a screenshot. It is a pretty standard imap account, the only oddity is that it stored on a windows server via folder redirection.
I took a screenshot before, and then after I deleted all of the (large) mail files and Thunderbird redownloaded everything.

Expected results:

not maxed out my drive :)

I'm on 125.0b4 now; i updated just after this happened, so i was probably on 125.0b3 prior? i keep it up to date.

Comment 1

[dan]

Attachment: storage_error_fixed.png - how much storage it is supposed to use

Comment 2

[Francesco]

Already reported as bug 1878541.