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| Thread ID: 96611 | 2009-01-16 09:34:00 | Decompressing Thunderbird ate all my HD space | hotkiwi (6379) | Press F1 |
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| 739363 | 2009-01-16 09:34:00 | Hi Guys, Little problem. I had few harddisk space left (1 GIG), so i decided to decompress my Thunderbird inbox and the other mailboxes. That was a mistake. I saw how the decompression ate the rest of the HD space away till there was nothing left and the decompression stopped. Now I am left with this zero space. I cleaned up the harddrive as good as I could but would like to free the stored decompressed data before I re-decompress. What could the name of that file be? It now seems logical to me what happened: Thunderbird kept a copy of the mailbox that was decompressed and at the same time created the decompression. How can I get rid of the deompress file ? Cheers and thanks for help Johan |
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| 739364 | 2009-01-16 11:08:00 | sorry, decompressing is wrong, I meant compacting........ | hotkiwi (6379) | ||
| 739365 | 2009-01-16 22:15:00 | DON'T EVER "COMPRESS" anything, windows or thunderbird. Slows things down too much. You'd be better off uninstalling what you don't need or downloading/running CCleaner I have no idea what you're trying to post,sorry Blam |
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| 739366 | 2009-01-17 00:23:00 | DON'T EVER "COMPRESS" anything, windows or thunderbird. Slows things down too much. You'd be better off uninstalling what you don't need or downloading/running CCleaner I have no idea what you're trying to post,sorry Blam Thunderbird needs regular compacting,as deleting an email still leaves a copy on the disk. By default thunderbird is set to manual compacting. If you do never compact Thunderbird, even a 500 GB will sooner or later be full with 'deleted' emails. cheers |
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