 SmokChsrWho let the magic smoke out?Premium
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Saint Augustine, FL
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Re: [Thunderbird] Uses LOTS of disk space - can't clean up I just migrated to Thunderbird from Netscape 7.1 mail, It was surprisingly a very effortless transition. What I was wondering is does Thunderbird force folder compacting on DST changes the way netscape does?
It should be noted I'm quite a packrat with my Email and have most everything sent and received since about 1995. It's been up converted cross converted and had a few other conversions coming from Netscape mail 1.something to Thunderbird. I remember one time I had to do a two step conversion process to keep everything I had.
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 McSummationMmmm, Zeebas Are Tastee.Premium,MVM
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Round Rock, TX
kudos:2 | said by SmokChsr:What I was wondering is does Thunderbird force folder compacting on DST changes the way netscape does? What is "DST changes"?
I've got 2 GB of mail stashed away in a bunch of folders in Tbird. The compaction runs so quickly that I don't normally notice it. |
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 Grail KnightQui audet adipisciturPremium
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Valhalla
kudos:6 | reply to SmokChsr
I have not seen Tb force compact on Daylight Savings Time. |
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Grail KnightQui audet adipisciturPremium
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Valhalla
kudos:6 | reply to McSummation
DST = Daylight Savings Time |
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McSummationMmmm, Zeebas Are Tastee.Premium,MVM
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Round Rock, TX
kudos:2 | OK, that's what it means to me. However, I couldn't correlate DST/DWT (Daylight Wasting Time) switch to why an email client would compact its files. I guess it does it twice a year whether it needs to or not.  |
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Grail KnightQui audet adipisciturPremium
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Valhalla
kudos:6 | Pretty odd feature IMO. |
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SmokChsrWho let the magic smoke out?Premium
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Saint Augustine, FL Reviews:
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said by McSummation:OK, that's what it means to me. However, I couldn't correlate DST/DWT (Daylight Wasting Time) switch to why an email client would compact its files. I guess it does it twice a year whether it needs to or not. Yes, odd, but it did.. Actually it would force a rebuild any time the clock was changed over a certain amount. I can't speak as to why, just know that it does. It was often quite frustrating, to come in after "Your Clock has been updated" and have to wait for a folder compact to complete as you clicked on each one. No it wouldn't just go ahead and do it, it sat back and waited for you to click on each folder before it started the compact process. |
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 rick752Premium
join:2006-01-27
New York
3 edits | It seems I vaguely remember the old Netscape Mail doing a compact on every folder I clicked on every great while. Is THAT why? ... automatic only on DST changes? I never knew what set that off because I think compacting folders was a manual operation then.
Just do what I told the OP to do here and your won't need to bother with that anymore.
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said by SmokChsr:said by McSummation:OK, that's what it means to me. However, I couldn't correlate DST/DWT (Daylight Wasting Time) switch to why an email client would compact its files. I guess it does it twice a year whether it needs to or not. Yes, odd, but it did.. Actually it would force a rebuild any time the clock was changed over a certain amount. I can't speak as to why, just know that it does. It was often quite frustrating, to come in after "Your Clock has been updated" and have to wait for a folder compact to complete as you clicked on each one. No it wouldn't just go ahead and do it, it sat back and waited for you to click on each folder before it started the compact process. This is exactly why tons of Hoosiers, as well as other enlightened US citizens, move to such a god-forsaken place like Hawaii.  
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