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Until version 5 of Thunderbird, compaction was set to occur when the space occupied by junk in the mail store exceeded 100Kb, with the release of Version 5 Thunderbird's default was changed to 20Mb. This huge change was prompted by the fact that a very large percentage of mails actually exceed the limit set at 100Kb so deleting a single mail triggered a compaction process, and this had serious effects on performance. | Until version 5 of Thunderbird, compaction was set to occur when the space occupied by junk in the mail store exceeded 100Kb, with the release of Version 5 Thunderbird's default was changed to 20Mb. This huge change was prompted by the fact that a very large percentage of mails actually exceed the limit set at 100Kb so deleting a single mail triggered a compaction process, and this had serious effects on performance. | ||
This default can easily be modified, and most people | This default can easily be modified, and most people should consider doing so. Having the threshold set high enough to make compacting a daily event would probably be ideal. If you get lots of mails which you then file to another folder that contain videos you might need to increase this 20Mb to a higher figure. | ||
If Thunderbird appears determined to compact every time you delete something or every few deletions it might be that a compact is not actually getting to completion. This can occur if you have an IMAP account that pushes mail to you when it is received (as opposed to Thunderbird going and asking if there is new mail), or you have the timing to collect mail set very low. As mentioned earlier scanning of the files by your anti virus program can also cause an abort of the process. In this case you may need to follow the following | If Thunderbird appears determined to compact every time you delete something or every few deletions it might be that a compact is not actually getting to completion. This can occur if you have an IMAP account that pushes mail to you when it is received (as opposed to Thunderbird going and asking if there is new mail), or you have the timing to collect mail set very low. As mentioned earlier scanning of the files by your anti virus program can also cause an abort of the process. In this case you may need to follow the following procedure to ensure that a compact does actually occur | ||
On the file menu, select offline and then work offline. | On the file menu, select offline and then work offline. | ||