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Thunderbird doesn't update quota for a new drive

davidneale3
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I've been running Thunderbird on an old laptop with a small capacity SSD, and have finally got around to upgrading the SSD from 180GB to 500GB. I cloned the drive, fixed the boot record and everything runs exactly as before after increasing the main partition size.

Thunderbird keeps warning me that I'm at 97% of my disk quota, even though the primary partition is much larger now. How can I reset this?

TIA,

David.

I've been running Thunderbird on an old laptop with a small capacity SSD, and have finally got around to upgrading the SSD from 180GB to 500GB. I cloned the drive, fixed the boot record and everything runs exactly as before after increasing the main partition size. Thunderbird keeps warning me that I'm at 97% of my disk quota, even though the primary partition is much larger now. How can I reset this? TIA, David.

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sfhowes
sfhowes
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Is the quota referring to the SSD or the space on your mail provider's mail server? If it's an IMAP account, copy messages to Local Folders, confirm the copy, then delete them from the IMAP folder.

davidneale3
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This is referring to the SSD - Thunderbird should have picked up that it's on a new drive with all the extra space but hasn't. I'm not sure how I can tell Thunderbird that it's got a lot more space to play with.