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 Post subject: Thunderbird
PostPosted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 7:58 pm 
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I upgraded to 5 the other week and kept getting an annoying drop down box that wants to compress my inbox every time I delete a message.

I uninstalled it for the earlier version, is there a way to kill the thing. can't find an option to turn it off.

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 Post subject: Re: Thunderbird
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John.

It offered to compact the files and folders for me too.
I clicked OK and let it do it.
Then it only asks once in a blue moon, but you can compact any folder if you think it is very large and have deleted a lot of emails from it by right clicking the folder and selecting Compact.

Remember Outlook Express used to do it every 50 or 100 times it was opened.

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When you delete a message in Mozilla Thunderbird it is not immediately physically removed from the mailbox file but only hidden from display. This speeds up things considerably, but it also wastes valuable hard disk space.
Compact Folders Now and Then in Mozilla Thunderbird.
To reclaim that space for the current account and compact folders in Mozilla Thunderbird.

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But I don't want them compacted, I want them in date order the way they are. :roll:

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Mine are all in date order and as they were before it compacted them.
All it does is remove the ones that you actually delete and puts the rest in the same order as they were but no gaps.
Remember you do not see the gaps but the deleted emails are not removed from your folders, just the title is so that you cannot open it again and you think it is gone.

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:scratch: :scratch: I click the delete button and it shifts it to the Deleted box, then 2 -3 times a day I empty the deleted box.

The 1135 emails in the inbox are all in the order I want them, for reference without actually saving them.

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