555707 - Is Thunderbird keeping a database of received, sent, or drafted e-mail those files have grown very large and slow down defrag programs.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Charles Pelissier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2
Build Identifier: Version 5.0 (Build 2195: Service pack 4)

Thunderbird Version 3.0.3


The path statement tells you where I am
C:\Documents and Settings\Charles Pelissier\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\lgfbo2sa.default\Mail\Local Folders\

There are three files sent, received and drafts in question. They should be zero length files, they have quite a bit of information in them. Are they 
Keeping a database file about the e-mail that I received, sent, or drafted.  Those files should be zero length ( 0 ) and have nothing in them. The other problem is that when I run defrag it takes forever for those files to get done, it realy takes a long time. How do I fix the problem without crashing Thunderbird. If Thunderbird is databasing those files (WHY).



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Go into thunderbird, right click on your folders, and select compact.

Comment 2

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

...as in comment #1: occasionally make a compactation!

Feel free to reopen it if I'm wrong!