Hello,
I need some advice on my Thunderbird email system.
The problem(s) that I’m having are what’s frequently discussed with
regard to Tbird “gulping” system drive stor… (read more)
Hello,
I need some advice on my Thunderbird email system.
The problem(s) that I’m having are what’s frequently discussed with
regard to Tbird “gulping” system drive storage, without frequent release.
I have been reading most of the narratives from this complaint, but the
problem I’m having seems a lot different. So, I came here to explain
my observation(s), in hopes I could correct this issue.
1. I am a long term Thunderbird POP3 user, since before the failures
began related to signon security changes, before the
Tbird corrections were employed(figuratively rewritten).
I left Tbird during that time, and now I’m back.
2. So, like many others, my problem(s) arise from Tbird’s apparent
failure to relinquish storage areas, when unused.
3. Right now, My W10 system drive(SSD) is setting at sitting at 122G.
4. It should be <100G, and it’s been as high as 13xG.
5. But, through some magic, something seems to happen during a
inactive period, that will magically trip this storage to
a more reasonable value. I have seen this 122G drop
to 102G, but not in a very long time.
6. Beyond the fact that I’m stumped, I chose to write this narrative
because my operations/experiences are significantly
different from others I’ve read.
7. First, this is the only problem that I’m having with Tbird. Everything
that I perform operates flawlessly.
8. And, probably even more noteworthy, is that I never maintain ANY
email data inside Tbird. Barring absence, as soon as I
determine email arrival, or any email changes, I simply
move that email to a system repository for archival. As
soon as this archival is complete, the email is deleted
from it’s point of arrival. So, IOW, every time I close this
system, Tbird will be completely empty of current mail.
9. Additionally, I initially configured ALL email storage repository to
reside on another system removable drive.
10. Prior to this note, I issued the compact request. I did see a 3.0MB,
but I’ve never seen anything above 0 MB before.
11. Additional attempts as solving this storage release problem, has
warranted my purchase of a software product that will
allow me to “look” into the internal storage of Tbird and
several competitors, to send this hidden data to other
repositories. It’s a long story, but I needed the product
to migrate email data, where only Print PDF was avail-
able.
12. But, it’s been very helpful in identifying Tbird internal email data
that remains, despite the fact that I’d cleaned Tbird of
everthing prior to my last review.
13. And, another issue is that all the email data that external email
tool identifies, is deeply hidden from my standard Tbird
client. The email data may be several/many days old,
even though the related viewable email data had been
archived/deleted several days earlier.
14. I mentioned that I have my email data re-positioned(#8) to external
system repository drive for archival. This specification is
issued in the “Local Directory” definition defined within
each email target definition. From my long past experie-
nces with Tbird, I learned that I could enter each of these
“Local Directory” alternate repositories, and just simply
erase them of ALL email data.
15. And, the next time Tbird was initialized, those “Local Directory”
repositories would be rebuilt, clean. This will remove
all email characteristics formerly present. And, the
remote repositories(#11) will be built clean, and no
latent email data will remain. However, this is probably
unavailable for the 99.99% of users that maintain email
on/in the Tbird system.
16. Tbird does, at some time, reorganize these repositories to regain
wasted drive space. I don’t know/understand just what
triggers this reorganization, and it never seems to “sync”
the complete unused storage available. Right now, my
system drive(SSD) was up to 122GB. Some time during
my research, I noticed a drop to 111GB. But, if all empty
data was reorganized, it would be <100GB. Of course,
when I describe these system drive totals, I’m referencing
the high limit of storage, including ALL installed software.
(#5).
17. The software product that I installed, to be used to move email data
from an email client to a stationary repository, is known as
“YOTA Email Migrator” – A product of by YOTA Software
Inc. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=yota+email+migrator&atb=v415-1&ia=web
18. I’m very sorry for my extensive narrative, but this is complicated, and
complication needs words.
Thank you,
Gary Walker -
