How can I tell how much free disc space is required to compact a folder?
It appears that Thunderbird knows how much disc space is required to compact a folder, since it says there is not enough. Could the message say "You must have xxx free disc space" rather than having to use the trial and error method. If this space is 'work space' could Thunderbird be instructed to use a drive other than C: for workspace.
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You need the size of the folder free. That is easily determined by right clicking the account in the folder pane and selecting properties.
Having said that unless you disk has twice the size of your largest folder, Thunderbird will struggle. Most folks either have a huge inbox or archive, but as a rule of thumb I would say 20gb should do it. Most with small drives have SSD drives and SSD drives do not do well when they are getting full. The general recommendation is the SSD drives should remain generally no more than about 70% full.
If Thunderbird is producing these sorts of error you may have a drive that is actually to small for your usage, or you may have other software causing problems that look like lack of file space. Things like antivirus products that lock files to scan them, or cloud backup or sync products that do the same sort of locking to copy can see messages about disk space surface when the real problem is file contention, not actual space.
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You need the size of the folder free. That is easily determined by right clicking the account in the folder pane and selecting properties.
Having said that unless you disk has twice the size of your largest folder, Thunderbird will struggle. Most folks either have a huge inbox or archive, but as a rule of thumb I would say 20gb should do it. Most with small drives have SSD drives and SSD drives do not do well when they are getting full. The general recommendation is the SSD drives should remain generally no more than about 70% full.
If Thunderbird is producing these sorts of error you may have a drive that is actually to small for your usage, or you may have other software causing problems that look like lack of file space. Things like antivirus products that lock files to scan them, or cloud backup or sync products that do the same sort of locking to copy can see messages about disk space surface when the real problem is file contention, not actual space.
N2DPF,
What specifically did you do to cause the error message to go away?
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