How can I stop the popstate-x.dats folders from appearing every time I open Thunderbird?
I've had this problem for a long time. Most every time I open Thunderbird, I get popstate-1,2,3,etc.dat folders appearing, which I delete out. It seems I get even more since going to Windows 10......sometimes there are 60 of these folders in each of my three email accounts.
Please - help me make it stop!
Thanks.
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I am almost certain it is the issue. Thunderbird only creates the numbered files when it can not get access to the original. My guess is the "live" nature of the sync is locking the file just as it is required.
I do not know how much data you get as an allowance from your ISP. But what you are doing is hugely expensive in terms of bandwidth use. You might be backing up the same 4Gb file every 10 minutes. It may be our backing up 10Gb or more an hour. Essentially consuming all of your internet connection bandwidth.
A better solution would be to use the backup in the import export tools add-on to back up your profile once a day and if you want the backup in the cloud, Backup to the synced drive, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/
I seriously doubt you will be to lost if your backup was up to yesterday, like 2am when your not around.
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Me too.
That me to leaves me wondering if this is also a issue with a synchronized folder to some cloud or remote location. Are you using a Microsoft live login account on Windows 10? What is the path to your profile folder? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb#w_where-is-my-profile-stored
Hmmm. I do have my three mail.account folders and the profile folder in my dropbox on my F:drive. F:\Dropbox\Mail.Profile.default
I thought this was a good way to automatically keep my mail backed up, it has actually already saved my butt once.
Do you think this is causing my problem somehow?
I'm not using a using a Microsoft live login account.
Thanks for the response!
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I am almost certain it is the issue. Thunderbird only creates the numbered files when it can not get access to the original. My guess is the "live" nature of the sync is locking the file just as it is required.
I do not know how much data you get as an allowance from your ISP. But what you are doing is hugely expensive in terms of bandwidth use. You might be backing up the same 4Gb file every 10 minutes. It may be our backing up 10Gb or more an hour. Essentially consuming all of your internet connection bandwidth.
A better solution would be to use the backup in the import export tools add-on to back up your profile once a day and if you want the backup in the cloud, Backup to the synced drive, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/
I seriously doubt you will be to lost if your backup was up to yesterday, like 2am when your not around.
Thank you, Matt! I moved my profile back to the default location outside of Dropbox and problem gone.
Glad to be rid of the popstate.dat folders!
Eric
Same here. Thanks. I would say that if you have Dropbox, don't back up directly to Dropbox.
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