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Pop - up in Thunderbird re Compacting Folders

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Each time I turn on Thunderbird recently, I get a pop-up box :- Compacting folders, saying, Deleted messages can be purged from disk each time they are deleted from the Inbox. I prefer to purge Deleted messages after a period of time, and not each time I delete an item from the Inbox. How can I stop getting this pop-up repeatedly

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Each time I turn on Thunderbird recently, I get a pop-up box :- Compacting folders, saying, Deleted messages can be purged from disk each time they are deleted from the Inbox. I prefer to purge Deleted messages after a period of time, and not each time I delete an item from the Inbox. How can I stop getting this pop-up repeatedly Thanks for any help on this.

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The compact process does not affect messages that are in Trash folder - which one might assume are the messages you want to retain for a period of time. Therefore, it should be OK for you to marked the checkbox to allow automatic compact to occur, and you will no longer be bothered by it.

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The compact process does not affect messages that are in Trash folder - which one might assume are the messages you want to retain for a period of time. Therefore, it should be OK for you to marked the checkbox to allow automatic compact to occur, and you will no longer be bothered by it.

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Version 91 comes out in several weeks, in which the language of the compact dialog has been greatly improved. When you install version 91, if compact causes problems, please create a new support topic.