301993 - "compact trash" hijacks the program

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[rsk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

About 3 times a week, when I launch Thunderbird, the program freezes while
"Trash" is "compacted."  This takes upwards of half an hour.  (I have 40,000
messages in trash.  I do not want Mozilla or anyone else to punish me if they
think that is too many.)  How can I disable this automated "compact" process?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

were you asked if you wanted to compact folders? And did you have deleted
messages in your trash? We don't compact folders w/o asking (though there is an
RFE to do that). Is this IMAP or POP3/local folders?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

cant proceed, not enough info and reporter is gone -> INVALID