Closed Bug 536858 Opened 16 years ago Closed 15 years ago

imap cache data takes twice as much as the data itself

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: ittay.dror, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2b6pre) Gecko/20091216 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6b6pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7pre) Gecko/20091209 Lightning/1.0b1pre Shredder/3.0.1pre I have a gmail account. I set up an account in Thunderbird. The preferences of "Synchronization and Storage" are: * Keep messages for this account ** In Advanced, all folders except Inbox are selected * Synchronize the most recent 15 days * Don't delete any messages * Always keep starred messages. In gmail's web interface I see I'm using 1.1GB space. In my computer, thunderbird has a folder ImapMail/imap.gmail.com whose size is 2.3GB. The folder used to be 4GB. I deleted and it is now 2.3GB (1 day after deletion) Reproducible: Always
Will File/Compact Folders for the Gmail IMAP account reduce offline-store file size? Do you have mails in Gmail IMAP mail folders(==Gmail Label) other than [Gmail]/All Mail,[Gmail]/Trash,[Gmail]/Spam,Inbox? [Gmail]/Trash : N1 MB, [Gmail]/Spam : N2 MB [Gmail]/All Mail : N3 MB Inbox : N4 MB (offline use=off in your case) folder-a(Gmail Label) : N5a MB | | folder-z(Gmail Label) : N5z MB Size at Gmail Web : N1 + N2 + N3 Total of offline-store file size : N1 + N2 + N3 + N5a + ... + N5z
(In reply to comment #1) > Will File/Compact Folders for the Gmail IMAP account reduce offline-store file > size? did not help > > Do you have mails in Gmail IMAP mail folders(==Gmail Label) other than > [Gmail]/All Mail,[Gmail]/Trash,[Gmail]/Spam,Inbox? no > [Gmail]/Trash : N1 MB, [Gmail]/Spam : N2 MB > [Gmail]/All Mail : N3 MB > Inbox : N4 MB (offline use=off in your case) > folder-a(Gmail Label) : N5a MB > | | > folder-z(Gmail Label) : N5z MB > Size at Gmail Web : N1 + N2 + N3 > Total of offline-store file size : N1 + N2 + N3 + N5a + ... + N5z What about the prefrence to synchronize only the most recent 15 days? the 1.1GB I'm using is after several years of using gmail.
After unchecking some of the folders and compacting I got 2GB back.
But now indexing kicked in and is indexing all of my 'All Mail', ~8500 messages. So I expect the 2GB to be taken back. How can I avoid indexing of gmail emails? Is there a way to tell thunderbird to search gmail messages through gmail's built-in search?
"Total directory size only" won't help problem analysis. Check file size of each file, please. .../Inbox, .../Inbox.msf .../[Gmail].sbd/All Mail, .../[Gmail].sbd/All Mail.msf xxx and xxx.msf under .../[Gmail].sbd If next is changed to "Checked" via UI, "offline use" of all IMAP folders of the account is enabled automatically. If next is changed to "Unchecked" via UI, "offline use" of all IMAP folders of the account is disabled automatically. > * Keep messages for this account Please be careful in testing. (In reply to comment #4) > How can I avoid indexing of gmail emails? AFAIK, "per account Indexer option" / "per folder Indexer option" is not implemented yet. > Is there a way to tell thunderbird to search gmail messages through gmail's > built-in search? What do you mean by "gmail's built-in search"? IMAP "search" command? I assume IMAP "search" command. Edit/Find/Search Messages has explicit option of "Run search on server". "Saved Search folder" also has "Search Online" option. Some restrictions: Gmail IMAP has Bug 500272, so "contains" is not still usable. "Body" search works only when offline use=on(auto-sync is effective for search target folder). Tb2(auto-sync is disabled) used IMAP "search" command for quick serch of IMAP folder. But I don't know about Tb3's quick search. (it may be; if offline use=on, search locally. if offline use=off, use IMAP search command.)
After removing some folders and compacting, thunderbird is now using "only" ~800MB. > du -ksh */* 65M imap.gmail.com.sbd/INBOX 284K imap.gmail.com.sbd/INBOX.msf 0 imap.gmail.com/Drafts.msf 65M imap.gmail.com/INBOX 276K imap.gmail.com/INBOX.msf 0 imap.gmail.com/Templates.msf 0 imap.gmail.com/Trash.msf 4.0K imap.gmail.com/[Gmail].msf 665M imap.gmail.com/[Gmail].sbd 4.0K imap.gmail.com/msgFilterRules.dat
I'm experiencing the same problem on the Windows platform. Should I file a new bug-report, or stick with this one? After I upgraded from TB 2.x to 3.0 Thunderbird ate over 40GB of my disk space. I'm syncing to Gmail accounts, one private and one work account. The Work account took most of it, with 39GB. The sum of the messages on the account itself is merely 5GB. Now that's Thunderbird allocating 7.8 times the disk space that messages actually use. Obviously, after upgrading, Thunderbird automatically decided to sync all my mail folders, which I didn't mind until I ran out of disk space. I tried unchecking the "Keep messages for this account" checkbox, but Thunderbird did not delete any messages. Turning on "synchronize only the last 30 days" did not help neither (keep messages both checked and unchecked). Using the advanced function, I unchecked everything but the Inbox, but to no avail. After manually deleting my mailboxes from the hard drive, I've tried some different solutions, but it's obvious to me that a lot of functionality is broken here. If I choose to synchronize the last 30 days, and don't check "keep mail..." it does nothing. If I check it while I has unchecked most of the folders it still does what ever it feels like. I have several folders taking up several gigabytes on the hard drive, and they are not checked, and it's not like I've sent 2.5 GB of mail since I deleted the mailboxes 14 days ago, nor in the last 30 days. I've not even told Thunderbird to synchronize the damn mailbox. Also, Thunderbird 3.x messes with my contacts, but that's not relevant here, it's just that I can't believe that Thunderbird 3 got out of beta with these severe bugs.
(In reply to comment #7) > I'm experiencing the same problem on the Windows platform. Magnus Bae, what is evidence of "same problem" as this bug's original problem? Read thru bug 487992, bug 532323, bug 537498, for issues relate to offline-store file size limit, if you see such large(greater than the limit) offline-store file size, please.
(In reply to comment #8) As far as I can see the bug is that Thunderbird uses to much disk space, and that the synchronize mail feature somehow is broken. I do not know whether or not my problems append to any of the bugs mentioned, largely because I do not have a large technical knowledge of how Thunderbird works, or what it does regularly to my mailboxes. Maybe it applies (in whole or part) to bug 487992, but that's closed - I'm not the expert so I don't know whether or not it does. But I think I've described my problem detailed enough for it to be conceivable by other people, if not, please feel free to ask for more details, but I do believe that the "same problem"-bit is stated rather clearly.
Ittay, can you summarize your current status? Or, if you no longer see this issue, please close and set resolution to WORKSFORME
Magnus Bae, if you still see a problem after version 3.1.8 (due out in January) please file a new bug. Also, please check for related issues by a) searching http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/support/ for gmail issues b) make sure you are not subscribed to the gmail "All Mail" folder. It is also worth noting that version 3.1 has considerably more controls for what folders get synced. and glodaquilla add-on does good augmentation in this area. Unless I misread comment 6, this is WFM for reporter ittay, => WFM
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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