Thunderbird System Folder Excessive Size
I've been using Thunderbird for the last 5-6 years with three different iMap Gmail accounts, a hotmail account and two other work email accounts. Been seeing a pop up the last few days that my folders cannot be compacted due to lack of disk space. I started looking around and found that my Thunderbird folder is approaching 750GB. From what I read in the forums this may be due to copies of emails being stored on my local device and/or temporary files that are created when attempting to compact folders and not being successful. My question is what files can I delete that will not remove any of the emails in the imap accounts? Do I even need to delete anything or can I just uncheck the box in Synchronization & Storage that says Keep messages in all folders for this account on this computer? I am running Thunderbird 128.1.1esr(64-bit).
Any help would be much appreciated.
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To start... Look for the largest files in your profile. And large files with "nstmp" in the name can be deleted.
Wayne Mery said
To start... Look for the largest files in your profile. And large files with "nstmp" in the name can be deleted.
Hi Wayne thank you for the feedback. Just to confirm before I follow your guidance. Does deleting the nstmp files affect any of my existing emails? I see a few really large files with that extension but want to make sure following this path doesn't delete any of the emails in my account(s).
Thes files are temporary for the life of a compact process, and should have been deleted. You can safely delete them.
What sizes are you seeing?
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Wayne Mery said
Thes files are temporary for the life of a compact process, and should have been deleted. You can safely delete them. What sizes are you seeing?
I have probably 15-20 of these temporary files in each of the imap accounts in my profile and they range in size from 1 to 40 GB
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