Open Bug 1901716 Opened 6 months ago Updated 6 months ago

Provide sanity check of profile directory size in Troubleshooting Information

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: wsmwk, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

Providing a sanity check of profile directory size in Troubleshooting Information would help users, triagers and support more quickly identify problems, without immediately needing skills or instructions to go to the file system. This could have helped with bug 1878541 for example.

It might be necessary to provide a button for this user to trigger this. Some ideas:

  • P - Show actual profile size by querying the OS file system
  • M - Show grand total size of all messages
  • Alert if P > M * 1.3 i.e. profile directory size 30% more than messages (allowing for message indexes, calendars, add-ons and miscellaneous files)

This bug is not about disk cache - perhaps there should be a separate bug to alert if cache > 1 GB (or something). Excessive cache size has been reported and is known to cause performance issues.

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