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Hi Team,

The emails were taking up a lot of space and I selected the compact now option on thunderbird. I want to retrieve my emails from the compacted folder as there are some important emails there. Can you please let me know how to access the same.

Thank you.

Hi,

After some archiving on my mailbox folders, Thunderbird started to ask me to compact folders at every launch of the product, with the same space gain estimate (918MB). I did not check the box to accept the compacting of folders done automatically without asking, because in this situation I consider compacting works badly. I attached a screenshot of the popup window I see.

I also discovered that the very same "compact folders" popup window appears everytime I delete mails in some folders.

Meanwhile, I can see no error message in Thunderbird that could indicate something turned bad during compacting.

So I am currently lost in a "compact folders" loop!

Thanks in advance for the help.

I keep getting a pop-up box, when I log into Thunderbird, saying T'bird needs to compact my files and asking me to check a box allowing automatic compacting. I am super careful these days and before agreeing to this wanted to check that it is genuine and not some elaborate fishing scam. Thanks, Dave