224934 - Inability to change directory where mail is saved?

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Martin Spencer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031008
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031008

I need to re-configure Mozilla because my hard drive is almost full (10 megs
left!).  The problem is caused by accumulation of mail in C:\My
documents\Administrator\Application Data [etc], not the directory I specified
(on another drive!!) for the programme.  I can't see any way to move this file
which is now several hundred megs.  It appears the problem is insoluble except
for deleting the mail or getting a bigger boot drive, either of which would be
very disruptive - annoying since I have many gigs of free space on another drive.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to view mail in another directory or move mail directory
2. Fail to find a way to do this
3.

Actual Results:  
Could find no way to do this

Expected Results:  
It would be better for me if mail was stored in the programme directory.  Since
this would not be correct for some users, perhaps an option to choose directory
for mail [etc] when installing the programme would be an acceptable compromise.

Apologies if the answer is obvious or if I have not used the bugzilla service
correctly.  I'm absolutely new to this.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Moving a profile is bug 77924.

Reporter, did you ever use "Compact Folders" to clean up unused space in the
mail folders ? It can also be done automatic, see [Preferences -> Mail ->
Offline & Diskspace].

Since you now have only 10MB left, it's very difficult to do that now . You
might try to move other folders out of the way first (compacting will copy the
mailfile, so it might use double the amount in the worst case).

Comment 2

[Aaron McBride]

I'm not sure that this is really a bug.  I guess it might be able to make it
easier to move the directory, but....

To move the directory that mozilla stores your mail:
In Mozilla mail,
Edit->Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings
Click on "Server Settings" for your account
Change the path to the "Local Directory" (copy your mail from it's current
location to the new location first if you want to keep your old mail)

Comment 3

[Martin Spencer]

Hi,

__NB:  __One other IMPORTANT thing you have to do!!!!!__

You need to change the setting for 'LOCAL FOLDERS' (near the bottom of the menu
tree), __as well as__ the setting for 'Local Directory' under 'Server Settings'.

There was me thinking I had moved everything... I left it a few days to be sure
everything was stable, then this morning I deleted the old folders...  
AAAARGH!!  Mozilla dies!!  Luckily I had backed everything up onto another drive
first, so I could recover the position.

Having changed both settings, I have now got all my mail in Mozilla and I have
been able to free up 200Mb on my boot drive...  great!


cheers,

Martin.

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[e-mail] wrote:

>http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224934
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>------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2004-05-04 18:07 PDT -------
>I'm not sure that this is really a bug.  I guess it might be able to make it
>easier to move the directory, but....
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>To move the directory that mozilla stores your mail:
>In Mozilla mail,
>Edit->Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings
>Click on "Server Settings" for your account
>Change the path to the "Local Directory" (copy your mail from it's current
>location to the new location first if you want to keep your old mail)
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Comment 4

[Jason Bassford]

Nothing in Mozilla was broken or fixed.

->WORKSFORME