Closed Bug 272751 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Recalculate size of folder

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: honza_buk, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs-CZ; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs-CZ; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0 I can see size of each folder. But when I get new mail the size is changed but when I delete some messages nothing has happned. Size is't go down. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Because the message is only marked as deleted in the mailbox file. After compacting the folders you will see a different size. That is by design. Just compact your folder, using File | compact folders, or right mouse button click | compact this folder. Mozilla uses berkeley mailbox format, which has to be compacted to regain space. We do have a pref to turn on auto-compact when more than a certain amount of disk space is wasted (in Prefs | Offline and Disk space).
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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