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Hello all:

After migrating to a new machine I finally have TB set up and running nicely. As I checked the individual settings and C: folders for the e-mail accounts under the server settings for each account (there are two, law and business), and the local folders (for long term e-mail storage, under Local Folders, Local Directory settings), I discovered the C: folder for the Law e-mail account is gigantic - when I check the properties in File Explorer it comes back as 331 GIG, yes, gig. More disturbing is that most of this appears to be "dark matter" that does not "show up." I total the visible files and folders inside that location and it is roughly 150 meg.

For comparison, the folder directory for Business e-mail account is only 24.9 gig, and the directory for the local folder for long term e-mail storage only clocks in at 11.1 gig.

Any ideas why the law firm e-mail account C: drive storage would be this large, with so much of it not visible?

Thanks for any thoughts.

Larry Reese

Translation: My emails in Thunderbird suddenly disappeared.

They were over 10,000, but now they're down to only 7,800.

Why?

Original: Email saya di thunderbird tiba-tiba menghilang, awal nya sejumlah diatas 10 ribu , menjadi hanya 7800 ? kenapa

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Instructivo perdida total 2020.pdf

File Size:

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Title:

Instructivo perdida total 2020

Author:

Subject:

Keywords:

Creation Date:

24.07.2020, 10:41:51

Modification Date:

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Created By:

Adobe Illustrator CS5

PDF Produced By:

Adobe PDF Library 9.90

PDF Version:

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Number of Pages:

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Page Size:

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