1896640 - Thunderbird takes huge amount of disk space (installed from snap in Ubuntu 22.04)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1878541

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Dmitry]

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:125.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0

Steps to reproduce:

• I used Thunderbird like a normal user for work mail account with 1-3 text emails on average daily.

Actual results:

Ubuntu 22.04 said that there is no disk space left. When using Disk Usage Analyzer, Thunderbird somehow took 300+ GB of space. I am not even having an account for a year

Expected results:

Thunderbird does not steal my disk space.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(This is partly support.)
Look for nstmp files and delete them. If you are finding nstmp files, then disable automatic compact.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Probably bug 1878541

Comment 3

[Dmitry]

Hi Wayne, thank you very much for pointing me out to nstmp files. Indeed, I see a file nstmp-1 with 109 GB of size. I also see a file Archives-1 with about the same size. Is it OK to delete it too?

It is a little bit scary that Thunderbird creates such huge files without any correlation to the actual mailbox size.