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About half my Thunderbird inbox (9482 messages out of 19,136) has mysteriously been split off into a folder called nstmp. How did it happen and why?

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All of the nstmp messages are more than a month old, so it doesn't appear that new messages are going anywhere but Inbox, so I'm not too concerned. If there's an easy way to merge the folders, I'm interested in trying it, but it's not a major hassle to check both folders when I'm looking for something old.

All of the nstmp messages are more than a month old, so it doesn't appear that new messages are going anywhere but Inbox, so I'm not too concerned. If there's an easy way to merge the folders, I'm interested in trying it, but it's not a major hassle to check both folders when I'm looking for something old.

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the nstmp folder should contain duplicate messages. to the folder that was being compacted when the Thunderbird process ended.

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the nstmp folder should contain duplicate messages. to the folder that was being compacted when the Thunderbird process ended.

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Thanks, you've saved me some trouble. I will now delete the nstmp folder. It would be nice, though, if I could be warned that compaction was going on.