Compressing my Thunderbird Inbox
I had the brilliant idea of compressing my 1.1 GB Thunderbird inbox today. See, it’s about 4% of my entire disk space on this Dell Inspiron 8200, and I really would like to do something else with that space. So, I just went to C:Documents and SettingsMy UserApplication DataThunderbird and compressed the whole Thunderbird folder. In Windows XP (home and pro) you can just right click the folder, go to properties, and check a “compress” box.
That done (it took half an hour, almost), I saved just over 200mb of disk space. Compressing Thunderbird using the built in filesystem feature in Windows XP makes it 18% smaller than before, for which my computer is thankful.
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I run Thunderbird on my G4 Mac with OS 10.3. Went to compress my InBox and everything in it has disappeared. All my emails that were not yet saved to a folder are gone. What is the safest way to try to get that back? Thanks for the help.
@Richard Eline: It is really sad, that you made this experience with Thunderbird and some Firefox plugins. I am happy with all the things you mention and they work absolutely perfect for me. I am always as wondering how anyone could live without adblockers and scriptblockers.
adblock works perfectly for me and so does thunderbird. have you checked it wasn’t an EBKAC error? (get some one else to check it as these are hard to self-diagnose)
I don’t know what you’re so proud of, Thunderbird is worthless.
Nearly impossible to access, stubborn and miserable to use, I will say it does well as a filter system, however, I cannot send mail from many sites contact places, the system refuses to send the mail.
I tried to send an email this morning-wouldn’t transmit, saved it to draft, can’t get to the page to try to send it by a system that will actually work.
My inbox might as well be a tomb, as I cannot get into it.
Firefox is good, your other systems stink on ice.
(btw, I installed your Adblock, it never blocked any ads, but it neatly disabled my spell check, gee, thanks, and be assured I will NEVER download any of your programs again).
You can do better.
File -> Compact folders does a pretty good job. It cut another 200mb off the compressed version!
You could also do File > Compact Folders in Thunderbird – that should reduce the wasted space, especially if you delete or move a lot of messages.