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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on March 2nd, 2005 at 6:12 pm
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.
on March 3rd, 2005 at 3:38 am
File -> Compact folders does a pretty good job. It cut another 200mb off the compressed version!
on August 7th, 2006 at 10:43 am
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.
on September 12th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
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)
on January 11th, 2008 at 2:07 am
@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.