Profile folder is suddenly half the size it was a few days ago... Is this a problem?
I back-up my Thunderbird profile folder every week.
I noticed that this week it was less than 50% of the size it was last week.
Upon inspection this appeared to be due to the IMAP folders being much smaller this week. I had to wait for some of the email attachments, which I thought were stored locally, to download.
After a while and after opening as many of these IMAP folders as I could, I checked the size of my profile folder again and it's now about 75% of the size it was last week.
I'm a bit unsettled as the reason I use a desktop-based email client is to act as a temporary local backup for my webmail (IMAP) including email attachments until I get the time to sort through them... but it seems that many of the attachments have disappeared in the last few days (well, I can see them but if I want to open them I have to wait for them to download).
I'm also a little concerned since my profile folder has shrunk to below 50% of what it was and then, in the last few hours has grown to 75% of what it was...
Thunderbird did update itself in the last few days so I wonder whether this changed things?
Things I've tried:
1) Opening & closing thunderbird a few times.
2) Rebooting whole desktop PC several times.
3) Checking Thunderbird's 'Synchronisation & Storage' settings (which seem to be as they should be if I want everything to be downloaded & stored locally)...
I'm thinking of removing and then re-adding my webmail account to Thunderbird to see whether that will rest things a bit
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Izabrano rješenje
OK - So I managed to sort this by replacing my new, smaller profile folder with an older, 'regular' sized version taken from an Image backup I made a couple of days ago. Seems to be working fine. I'll keep a copy of the 'smaller' folder for a week or so just in case I hit problems...
I still don't know why or how this happened, nor whether it was worthy of my concern..?
Demonstrates the value of making regular, comprehensive backups... :-)
So - 'as you were' and thanks if you've read this...
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OK - So I managed to sort this by replacing my new, smaller profile folder with an older, 'regular' sized version taken from an Image backup I made a couple of days ago. Seems to be working fine. I'll keep a copy of the 'smaller' folder for a week or so just in case I hit problems...
I still don't know why or how this happened, nor whether it was worthy of my concern..?
Demonstrates the value of making regular, comprehensive backups... :-)
So - 'as you were' and thanks if you've read this...