295233 - files in "Local Folders" directory grow very large even if I delete all messages

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[u202317]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2

The files in the "Local Folders"-directory grow bigger and bigger although I
regularly delete most messages. For example, my "Sent" file is about 18 MB
although I completely emptied it.
Both accounts I use are specified to the "Local Folders"-directory. Last time
the problem occured, I moved my mails in other folders, deleted the files and
moved back. Since then, the files again started to groooow.

Since ever growing file sizes makes the mails impossible to backup, I rated the
severity as "critical". Hope you don't find that exaggerated.


I hope that is all you need to know.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. receiving/writing/moving new mail.
2. deleting them


Actual Results:  
the files in the "Local Folders" directory stay large.

Expected Results:  
the mails should have been deleted from the appropriate files.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Your forgot to use the "compact Folders" option.

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